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 ...
The UA poetry community and the UA Honors College will host an evening featuring the award-winning poet, playwright and essayist Claudia Rankine on Friday, Sept. 16, at 7 p.m. The UA Honors College ...
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 ...
After closing during previews two years ago due to the pandemic, this March The Shed presents the world premiere of Help, a new play by acclaimed author and poet Claudia Rankine (Just Us, Citizen: An ...
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 ...
Claudia Rankine, a widely acclaimed poet and literal genius (2016 MacArthur Genius Fellow), continues Rollins College’s Winter With the Writers series with a master class workshop and reading Thursday ...
A lot has happened since 2014, for both the nation and Rankine. In 2016, she joined Yale’s African American–studies and English departments and was awarded a MacArthur genius grant. The fellowship ...
What: Claudia Rankine, poet, playwright and author of “Citizen: An American Lyric,” a poetic meditation on race, and the Frederick Iseman Professor of Poetry at Yale University, will discuss mounting ...
Two years ago, just after the start of previews for Claudia Rankine’s play, “Help,” New York’s theaters shut down. Now with the pandemic easing, the show is finally opening. PBS NewsHour Weekend sat ...
Given the mass demonstrations over police violence against Black people plus a president bent on widening the country’s deep racial divide, Claudia Rankine’s new book, “Just Us: An American ...
The African American man whose beating by Los Angeles Police ignited civil upheaval in 1992 famously said later: “Can’t we all just get along?” The answer to Rodney King’s question, which has taken on ...
“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) ...