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Claudia Rankine

Best Article

I Wanted to Know What White Men Thought About Their Privilege. So I Asked.

The author teaches a college class about what it means to be white in America, but interrogating that question as a black woman in the real world is much harder to do.

Claudia Rankine New York Times Magazine Jul 2019 25min Permalink

Music

Lizzo on Hope, Justice, and the Election

A profile of the singer.

Claudia Rankine Vogue Sep 2020 20min Permalink

Sports

The Meaning of Serena Williams

Black excellence in the land of tennis.

Claudia Rankine New York Times Magazine Aug 2015 20min Permalink

‘The Condition of Black Life Is One of Mourning’

On black bodies in the age of the Charleston shootings.

Claudia Rankine New York Times Magazine Jun 2015 10min Permalink