Tag: Serena Williams

In the wake of an Australian cartoon about the U.S. Open historian Brooke Newman traces a history of racial caricature.

Much is being written about the contentious U.S. Open women’s final match, but this moment belongs to Naomi Osaka.

Williams plans to defend her Australian Open title just three months after giving birth.

It’s always polarizing when you’re trying to designate a single athlete as the “Greatest of All Time.”

To celebrate the achievements of Serena Williams and Roger Federer, I’d like to share two of my favorite profiles of them.

What does a victorious or defeated black woman’s body in a historically white space look like? Serena and her big sister Venus Williams brought to mind Zora Neale Hurston’s “I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background.” This appropriated line, stenciled on canvas by Glenn Ligon, who used plastic letter […]

Venus and Serena Williams, living as adults, free of their parents, and still America’s biggest tennis superstars.