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Touring America's Monuments to Slavery
Clint Smith, staff writer at The Atlantic, award-winning poet, and author of How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America (Little, Brown and Company June 1, 2021), leads listeners through a tour of U.S. monuments and landmarks that have a connection to the legacy of slavery and talks about how those places emphasize or distort their history.
EVENT:
- 6/18 @ 12pm ET: Brennan Center for Justice with The Lit Bar w/Ted Johnson. RSVP HERE
- 6/19 @ 12pm ET: Schomburg Center Literary Festival w/Dr. Andrea Roberts. RSVP HERE