When poet Claudia Rankine writes the final lyrical lines of a book, she knows exactly who her intended audience is. “The person who wants to read it,” Rankine said. “I always feel like when I finish ...

Claudia Rankine has opened up about learning that she was conceived as a “product of rape” and how it changed her feelings about her mother. The award-winning US poet said that the discovery, which ...

He said, I don’t know what the water wanted. It wanted to show you no one would come. New Orleans in 2005 is not Ferguson in 2014 is not Los Angeles in 1992. One tragedy can’t be exchanged for another ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The author and poet Claudia Rankine witnessed the collective muted response after James Byrd Jr. was dragged to death along an ...

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“Fantasies cost lives,” Claudia Rankine writes in her new book, “Just Us,” a collection of essays and poems (and accompanying data graphs, photos, screenshots of social media posts and video stills) ...

Few words echo as far and fast as racist. Amid so much supposedly race-neutral language, it lands with a violent unreality, uprooting both subject and speaker. Claudia Rankine said as much in her ...

The 25-year-old superstar was delivered a four-game ban on Thursday afternoon, with the Crows releasing a subsequent statement confirming Rankine “used a homophobic slur” during last Saturday’s game ...

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