Issa Rae’s breakout moment
by DANIEL D’ADDARIO
Sep 03, 2016
2 minutes
“I WANT TO MAKE THIS VERY CLEAR,” ISSA RAE SAYS AS SHE DESCRIBES Insecure, the HBO comedy she created and stars on. “This is not the quintessential black-woman experience. It’s a very specific experience.”
The emphasis is unnecessary. Rae, whose popular web series The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl and memoir with the same title catapulted her from office drone to
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