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 ...

In her book-length poem “Citizen,” from 2014, the writer Claudia Rankine probed some of the nuances and contradictions of being a Black American. Her focus fell on what it means to be erased, ...

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 ...

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 author and poet Claudia Rankine witnessed the collective muted response after James Byrd Jr. was dragged to death along an asphalt road in Texas in 1998. She watched widespread resistance rise ...

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 ...

Claudia Rankine, a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship recipient, National Book Critics Circle Award winner and National Book Award finalist, will read from and discuss her new book, Just Us: An American ...

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 ...

A few years ago, poet Claudia Rankine gave a reading of “Citizen: An American Lyric,’’ her 2014 award-winning collection of poems exploring racism and aggression. During the question-and-answer period ...

“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) ...