“How different might our country look if all of us fully understood what had happened here?” That is the question author Clint Smith sets out to answer in “How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America” through visits to nine locations that memorialize or distort their link to the legacy of slavery- from Monticello in Charlottesville, Va., to the African Burial Ground in Lower Manhattan. Clint Smith joins MetroFocus to discuss the lessons learned from his book.