Clint Smith
He is the author of the poetry collection Counting Descent, which won the 2017 Literary Award for Best Poetry Book from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association, and of the No. 1 New York Times best-selling book How the Word Is Passed. He is also the host of the Crash Course Black American History YouTube series.
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Juan Mabromata / AFP / Getty The Joy of Morocco
The Moroccan team may have lost its semifinal World Cup game, but it still made history.
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Jean Catuffe / Getty Images The Absurd Talent of Kylian Mbappé
The French star player has already proved that he’s one of the best in the history of the game.
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Patrick T. Fallon / AFP / Getty What We Ask of Black American Athletes
The captain of the U.S. soccer team is the latest in a long line of sports stars who have had to wrestle with a complex legacy on the world stage.
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Tim Nwachukwu / Getty A Kid’s-Eye View of the U.S. vs. ‘Whales’
Holiday-season play makes this World Cup a family affair.
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Courtesy Clint Smith Radio Atlantic: For Love of the Game
In this episode of Radio Atlantic, the staff writer Clint Smith talks about the complicated feelings he has for soccer, and which teams and players shaped his love of the sport.
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Erik Carter / The Atlantic; courtesy of Clint … How to Cheer for America
When I watch the World Cup, I’m celebrating not what this country is, but what it can be.
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Marc Wilson for The Atlantic Monuments to the Unthinkable
America still can’t figure out how to memorialize the sins of our history. What can we learn from Germany?
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Lambert / Getty What a Racist Slur Does to the Body
I cannot hear that word, used in that way, without thinking about violence.
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Gabriela Pesqueira / The Atlantic No Parent Should Have to Live Like This
I spent last week mourning those murdered in Buffalo. I will spend this week mourning children murdered at school.
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Zohra Bensemra / Reuters Senegal’s Soccer Victory Is So Much More Than a Soccer Victory
The nation won its first-ever Africa Cup of Nations, giving Senegalese people the world over something to celebrate.
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Joakim Eskildsen Close to Home
What a photographer found when he trained his camera on his own family
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Digital alteration by Ken Gonzales-Day for The Atlantic. … Now We Know Their Names
In Maryland, a memorial for two lynching victims reveals how America is grappling with its history of racial terror.
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Jeff Kravitz / Jon Kopaloff / Getty; The … ‘I Always Think of Poetry as Home for Me’
The poet Amanda Gorman discusses her new collection, Call Us What We Carry, and how the last year has brought new urgency to her writing.
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Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times / Getty 800,000 Deaths
The number is so enormous that we risk becoming numb to its implications.
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John Boss / The Advocate / AP 57 Years in a Cage Is Long Enough
It’s time Henry Montgomery came home.
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David Grunfeld / The Advocate / AP ; … A Slow and Quiet Calamity
I don’t know how long the power will be out in New Orleans. But I know more storms are coming.
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John Moore / Getty The Lines of Connection
States make millions off phone-call fees from incarcerated people, but the cost can be even higher for their families.
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Glyn Kirk / AFP / Getty ; Hulton … Why I’m Supporting England at Euro 2020
The squad has transformed culturally since the last time the English were champions. I’m rooting for the future it represents.
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Vladimir Pesnya / Sputnik / AP The Near-Holy Experience of Watching Euro 2020
This year’s tournament has been unlike any I’ve ever witnessed, a reminder that when soccer fans enter a stadium, it becomes a church.
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Paul Spella Why Confederate Lies Live On
For some Americans, history isn’t the story of what actually happened; it’s the story they want to believe.
