Hosted By: University of the South - Sewanee (TN) In partnership with Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation Centers at Mt. Holyoke College, Spelman College, Agnes Scott College, and the Joseph Lowery Institute of Atlanta, the Sewanee Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation Center is pleased to announce a virtual collaboration, A Conversation with Clint Smith, to be held on Tuesday, January 16th, National Day of Racial Healing, 6 pm-7 pm CT in Gailor Hall. Refreshments will be provided. Smith is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, the Hillman Prize for Book Journalism, the Stowe Prize, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and selected by the New York Times as one of the 10 Best Books of 2021. He is also the author of two books of poetry, the New York Times bestselling collection Above Ground and Counting Descent, which won the 2017 Literary Award for Best Poetry Book from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association and was a finalist for an NAACP Image Award. He is a staff writer at The Atlantic.