We're thrilled today to announce some exciting news about Outspoken speaker, Crystal Fleming: Kirkus Reviews has named Rise Up! How You Can Join the Fight Against White Supremacy! a Best Book of the Year for 2021. This book explores the roots of racism and its legacy in the modern-day, all while empowering young people with actionable ways they can help foster a better world and become antiracists.
Read More2017 has certainly been a standout year for Clint Smith, with his 2016 poetry collection Counting Descent, winning the 2017 Literary Award for Best Poetry Book from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. He's a 2017 recipient of the Jerome J. Shestack Prize from the American Poetry Review. He was recently named to the EBONY Power 100 2017 list under "The Luminaries". And this week was announced as a 30 Under 30 Media star for Forbes.
As a featured voice of Crooked Media's popular podcast "Pod Save the People" and one of our most popular speakers, Clint has much to share with us on historical perspectives and the use of poetry as a means to ask about the world—something he often dissects both on the show, in his writing, with his studies and certainly his speeches.
Check out this reflective video and short performance of his piece "What the cicada said the black boy":
