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Jamil Smith

Former Senior Correspondent

Why Fannie Lou Hamer’s definition of “freedom” still matters

By Jamil Smith October 21, 2021

Bryan Stevenson on tracing the legacy of American enslavement to mass incarceration

By Jamil Smith October 13, 2021

Ken Burns’s latest is on the Greatest

By Jamil Smith September 23, 2021

Clint Smith III on confronting slavery’s legacy in America

By Jamil Smith August 27, 2021

Robert Reich wants you to fight the system

By Jamil Smith August 13, 2021

“Progressive prosecutors” are working within the system to change it. How is that going?

By Jamil Smith July 30, 2021

Why America’s story requires revision

By Jamil Smith July 15, 2021

Sean Illing and Jamil Smith bring a new kind of interview show to your ears

By Sean Illing and Jamil Smith July 8, 2021

We should be talking about the death of Mikayla Miller

By Jamil Smith May 15, 2021