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Published June 4, 2021 at 1:06 PM CDT Listen • 27:00 Susan Larson talks with Clint Smith about his new book, “How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America.” Here’s what’s on tap in the literary life this week Here in New Orleans: Clint Smith, begins his virtual book tour this week, which continues throughout the month. Check out clintsmithiii.com for info. Poet Kelly Harris-DeBerry signs “Freedom Knows My Name” in a sidewalk book signing event, Saturday, June 5, from 2-3:30 p.m. at Blue Cypress Books. Nicolas DiDo...

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How America Remembers— and Distorts — Its Slavery Past Monticello, photographed in 2018. In “How the Word Is Passed,” Clint Smith visits nine places that memorialize or distort their link to the legacy of slavery, from Monticello, in Charlottesville, Va., to the African Burial Ground in Lower Manhattan. He skillfully braids interviews with scholarship and personal observation, asking, “How different might our country look if all of us fully understood what had happened here?”Credit...Gabriella Demczuk for The New York Times Buy Book ▾ By Julian Lucas HOW THE...

It’s time to start your summer reading list.

[Many thanks to Michael O’Neal (Slavery, Smallholding and Tourism) for bringing this item to our attention.] Andrew Anthony (The Guardian) reviews Blood Legacy: Reckoning With a Family’s Story of Slavery (Canongate Books, 2021) by Alex Renton. “The author of Stiff Upper Lip examines his own family history to expose the extent to which the fortunes of the UK’s…