Clint Smith

Rated PG-13.

Hi, I'm Clint Smith and this is Crash Course Black American History.

Economic crises usually affect marginalized people differently.

This is because systemic injustices typically create environments where historically oppressed people have fewer resources to work with before the crisis, less access to entitlement programs to help them during the crisis, and more burdens to carry by the time the crisis is over.

Hi, I'm Clint Smith and this is Crash Course Black American History.

I want you to imagine that you're in the shoes of this person.

You're being offered free medical treatment by a team of doctors that work for the U.S. government.

The Commission's recommendations required researchers to always get informed consent from all of their study participants.

In 1996, the Tuskegee Syphilis Study Legacy Committee was organized to develop a strategy to address the emotional damages of the study, to hold the federal government accountable for more ethical research practices, and to persuade the federal government to publicly acknowledge their role in harming this community of Black Americans.

And in 1997, President Bill Clinton apologized publicly, stating, it is not only in remembering that shameful past that we can make amends and repair our nation, but it is in remembering that past that we can build a better present and a better future.

The United States government did something that was wrong.

Deeply, profoundly, morally wrong.

She lives with her husband and two children in Brooklyn, New York.

Parker will be in conversation with Clint Smith, a staff writer at The Atlantic.

He is the author of narrative nonfiction book How the World Has Passed, which won the 2021 National Books Critics Circle Award for nonfiction and was a New York Times bestseller.

And he is the author of poetry collections Counting Descent and Above Ground.

We're going to start it here tonight on Politics on Prose.

It's going to be called the Group Help Shelf.

Clint Smith's work's going to be on it.

Raina's work's going to be on it.

I was called a FUD even.

One guy called me a FUD and then another guy invoked Clint Smith.

So the spectrum of comments was broad.

Your truck or your car is not a damn arms room and it's not a kit locker.

I'm having fun on Play-O-Joe.

Hi, I'm Clint Smith, and this is Crash Course Black American History.

Many Americans are pretty familiar with the August 1963 March on Washington, largely because it's where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous I Have a Dream speech.

But what a lot of people don't know is that there was another March on Washington that was planned more than 20 years before.

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Shout out to Clint Smith.

Yeah.

He's still cooking.

I still teach it, and students really love it and love to discuss it.

I will also recommend, there's a great Crash Course African American History episode about Zora Neale Hurston that Clint Smith narrates.

He is the narrator of all of those episodes.

And it is excellent.

Read PG-13.

Hi, I'm Clint Smith and this is Crash Course Black American History.

The Montgomery Bus Boycott, which took place from December 5, 1955 to December 20, 1956, was one of the most successful examples of mass nonviolent resistance in U.S. history.

This boycott is regarded as being the first large-scale U.S. demonstration against segregation with an estimated 40,000 participants.

I think it's a huge question.

This week, we've asked writer Clint Smith to join the group chat because we want to talk about how if, you know, maybe everybody understood the history of this country, Eugene, just a little bit better.

Maybe they could see very clearly what the president is trying to get his hands on and trying to require voter ID everywhere, which is not just voter ID.

Really, they're trying to talk about citizenship and suppose that's what the Save America Act is really about.

I'm radicalizing you for the, for the, for, you know, democracy.

Okay, let's take a quick break.

And when we come back, New York Times bestselling author Clint Smith is joining the group chat.

For me, being a part of this place has always been about the people, not about the politics.

It's a pleasure to see you.

I actually see some faces who were here a month ago when we did this with Clint Smith.

And I've got the pleasure tonight of talking with my colleague, Rose Horwich, who wrote our wonderful cover story.

This is actually, this is like the advanced level, because we're going to ask Rose to sit here in a room full of Atlantic readers, surrounded by books, and convince you that people are not reading anymore.