Black writer explores Germany’s Holocaust remembrance – Clint Smith studied the Holocaust memorials in Germany and explored how the US recalls its history of slavery. | The Jerusalem Post

For his 2021 book “How the Word Is Passed,” winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, poet and journalist Clint Smith explored the landscape of American memory — specifically how the history of slavery is explained, commemorated, distorted and desecrated in sites across the United States.