Clint Smith

📅 7/16; 9:30a ET
📍Online

Join us for Katrina’s America, a day-long event exploring the legacy of Hurricane Katrina.

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The Nuclear Club Might Soon Double As American power recedes, South Korea, Japan, and a host of other countries may pursue the bomb.

🧵 Earlier this year, I traveled to East Asia for a story about whether South Korea and Japan will pursue nuclear weapons as China continues its nuclear build-up and the U.S. becomes a (much) less reliable ally.

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

But for the arbitrary nature of birth and circumstance, any of us could be living in poverty, dependent upon assistance to put food on the table, to take our children to the doctor, and to pull ourselves out of debt. The lack of empathy, the pure callousness on display in this bill, is infuriating.

From @clintsmithiii.bsky.social's book, Counting Descent.

#poem #books #writing

And if you don’t necessarily have a young person in your life but you want to help this book reach students, you can order from Loyalty and just leave a note in the comment box saying “DONATE” and we’ll donate however many books you buy to local schools.

Advanced copies of the Young Readers Edition of How the Word Is Passed have arrived it’s got me really excited about getting this book into the hands of young people. I’m also excited to be partnering with Loyalty Books to provide signed/personalized copies.

loyaltybookstores.com/book/9780316...

How Toni Morrison Changed Publishing At night, she worked on her novels. By day, as an editor at Random House, she championed a new generation of writers.

At night, Toni Morrison worked on her novels. By day, she was the first Black female senior-editor at Random House. She championed a fresh generation of authors, @clintsmithiii.bsky.social writes. A new book chronicles her time as an editor:

How Toni Morrison Changed Publishing At night, she worked on her novels. By day, as an editor at Random House, she championed a new generation of writers.

Toni Morrison is one of the greatest writers to ever live. What many don’t know, is that she was also the first Black woman to become a senior editor at Random House. I wrote about a new book that discusses how she edited by day, wrote by night, and ushered in a new generation of Black writers.

How Toni Morrison Changed Publishing At night, she worked on her novels. By day, as an editor at Random House, she championed a new generation of writers.

Toni Morrison is one of the greatest writers to ever live. What many don’t know, is that she was also the first Black woman to become a senior editor at Random House. I wrote about a new book that discusses how she edited by day, wrote by night, and ushered in a new generation of Black writers.

A brutal, extraordinary story

Coco Gauff what a legend

This PSG team is going to be very very good for many many years.

The first screening of Ryan Coogler’s ‘Sinners’ in Clarksdale, Mississippi.

This is the first time a lot of people in Clarksdale have been abled to watch the film for the first time. Ryan Coogler, Zinzi Evans, and Miles Caton were all in attendance.

📸: @/Carmen_A_Jude (on X)

If this is even remotely accurate, Elon Musk and Donald Trump have killed more people in several months than the Iraq war killed in a decade

It Should Not Be Controversial to Plead for Gaza’s Children Israel’s limits on aid have put the region at “critical risk of famine.” Help is within reach. But it’s not enough—and it’s arriving too slowly.

It should not need to be said, and it should not be controversial to say it, but: Starving children is wrong.

I wrote for @theatlantic.com about the horror of the Palestinian people needlessly starving while food is within reach:

www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...

CHAMPIONS OF EUROPE!!

Episcopal Church refuses to resettle white Afrikaners, citing moral opposition The church said it's terminating a decades-long partnership with the federal government to help refugees arriving in the U.S., citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa.

The church said it's terminating a decades-long partnership with the federal government to help refugees arriving in the U.S., citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa.

Credit to PSG, a really excellent team

Less than ideal…

TODAY IS THE DAY ARSENAL LETS MAKE IT HAPPEN I BELIEVE IN YOU ALSO PLEASE I AM BEGGING YOU

A picture shows 32 men arranging themselves into an SOS on the ground of a prison yard. The ground is bare earth. All the men are wearing red or orange prison jumpsuits.

What an image! Venezuelan men who narrowly avoided being imprisoned by Trump in El Salvador without trial (saved by the Supreme Court) spelled out an SOS to a
@reuters.com camera drone observing the Bluebonnet ICE facility.

11 days ago, buses to the airport were turned around at the last second.

Senior Faculty Pledging to Donate a Portion of Salary in Defense of University Community Senior Faculty Pledging to Donate a Portion of Salary in Defense of University Community We are heartened by the University’s rejection of the Trump administration’s unlawful demands. We also recogn...

More than 80 Harvard faculty members have signed on to a pledge to donate 10% of their paycheck to support staff and students, as long as the University resists Trump's unlawful demands. I am so proud of my colleagues. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Besides Pele, is Lamine Yamal the best 17-year-old player of all time?

Giannis come to the Pelicans

It could have been much much worse. We go again next week.

Wow they are quite good

Would give anything to be at The Emirates tonight

Clint Smith on Telling the Truth About America’s History | KQED We talk to Clint Smith about the battle over how American history is told.

🎙️ON AIR:

We're speaking with @clintsmithiii.bsky.social and the Museum of the African Diaspora's Key Jo Lee about the battle over how American history is told.

❓What's your reaction to the Trump order to remove "improper ideology" from museums and monuments?

📻 Listen:

"The National Museum of African American History and Culture is not a place that traffics in improper ideology," Clint Smith writes. "It is a museum that recognizes that America has been suffused in improper ideologies for most of its history." https://theatln.tc/81hXXEqK