Poet Claudia Rankine on Her Award Winning Book, “Citizen”
In her book “Citizen: An American Lyric,” poet Claudia Rankine challenges readers to explore their underlying assumptions about race. She tells Charles Monroe-Kane what compelled her to write the book, and about visiting Ferguson, Missouri.
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