Clint Smith Author Talk for Young Readers

Sat Oct 04 2025 at 04:00 pm to 06:00 pm UTC-05:00

1030 Elysian Fields Ave | New Orleans

Baldwin & Co.
Publisher/HostBaldwin & Co.
Clint Smith Author Talk for Young Readers
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We all know and love Clint Smith's amazing book "How the Word is Passed". Here it is readapted for young readers!
About this Event

Bring your family and friends to this unforgettable event with local New Orleans author Clint Smith! His bestselling book How the Word is Passed is now readapted and available for kids ages 10 and up.

Adapted from Clint Smith's #1 New York Times bestselling and universally acclaimed How the Word Is Passed, this must-read narrative takes readers to historical sites across America, exploring the legacy of slavery to help readers make sense of our nation's past and present, and be better stewards of their own future.Beginning in his own hometown of New Orleans, Clint Smith leads young readers through an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks—those that are honest about the past and those that are not—offering an intergenerational story of how slavery has been central in shaping our nation’s collective history, and ourselves.How the Word Is Passed illustrates how some of our country’s most essential stories are hidden in plain view—whether in places we might drive by on our way to school, holidays such as Juneteenth, or entire neighborhoods (like downtown Manhattan) on which the brutal history of the trade in enslaved people has been deeply imprinted.Informed by scholarship and brought alive by the story of people living today, this adaptation of Clint Smith’s #1 bestselling, award-winning work of nonfiction offers kids a new understanding of the hopeful role that memory and history can play in making sense of our country, and shows how they can reckon with the past and present to become better stewards of their future.

Clint Smith is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction and was named one of the New York Times 10 Best Books of 2021. He is also the author of the New York Times bestselling poetry collection Above Ground and the award-winning poetry collection Counting Descent. He is a staff writer at The Atlantic.

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1030 Elysian Fields Ave, 1030 Elysian Fields Avenue, New Orleans, United States

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