Imani Perry

BOMB Magazine | DéLana R.A. Dameron by Jessica Lynne Everyday experiences of Southern Black life.

This anvil of grief.

Without funerary activities, they say, you live in constant disbelief
your loved one is gone. You seek the Light, if only for a moment, to borrow
so you don’t follow Thomas to the bridge edge, seeking relief

fr—When Mama died, I lost my air
DéLana R. A. Dameron
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Redwood Court (Reese's Book Club): Fiction Fiction

DéLana R. A. Dameron was a brilliant poet & fiction writer about my age that I was in community with who has suddenly passed which is earth shattering. This is her acclaimed novel. @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social
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Octavia Butler LOA LIVE event on 11/24 with Imani Perry and Tananarive Due

Next Monday, 11/24, two celebrated writers and scholars explore the craft and influence of Octavia E. Butler. Join @imaniperry.bsky.social and @tananarivedue.bsky.social for an evening dedicated to the revered SFF author’s luminous imagination. RSVP for free: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-radica...

The Radical Imagination of Octavia E. Butler, with Imani Perry and Tananarive Due. A free LOA LIVE program on 11/24. RSVP here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-radical-imagination-of-octavia-e-butler-registration-1967684174334?aff=threads

On Monday, 11/24, join @imaniperry.bsky.social and @tananarivedue.bsky.social for an online program on Octavia E. Butler, speculative fiction trailblazer and author of Lilith’s Brood: The Xenogenesis Trilogy, just out from Library of America. RSVP for free: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-radica...

Picture of book When Trees Testify with text that reads: "A beautiful journey through the imagination and intellect of one of our most important contemporary science writers. Montgomery is an inheritor of the Black ecological tradition, who brings her heart and knowledge to bear on the world around us, offering deep illumination and abundant wisdom." -Imani Perry, National Book Award-winning author of South to America

THE @imaniperry.bsky.social on When Trees Testify (@henryholtbooks.bsky.social):
A beautiful journey through the imagination & intellect of one of our most important contemporary science writer...an inheritor of the Black ecological tradition, who brings her heart & knowledge to bear on the world...

Horrifying reminders of why one’s politics should never be thought of in binary terms regardless of the system we have.

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Charleston Literary Festival: Black in Blues In Black in Blues, cultural critic and MacArthur fellow Imani Perry joins forces with novelist and historian Dolen Perkins-Valdez to craft an extraordinary medi

@abcnews4.com Dissapointing AI generated and FALSE article published on your site: abcnews4.com/lowcountry-l...

It was lovely meeting you

One of the things I keep thinking is that he is manipulating white Americans (bigotry is an easy tool of distraction) while robbing them too.

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I listen to audio recordings of my loved ones who have died. It feels like prayer to me. I cry but I also smile. They really were here, with me. What a blessing.

‘An attack on democracy itself’: Trump wants museums to shut up about slavery Princeton’s Eddie Glaude describes Donald Trump’s efforts to remove exhibits on slavery from Smithsonian museums as an “an all-out assault on what made my mom and dad and their grandparents possible.” In addition to this being an attack against the Black community, Harvard University professor Imani Perry says it’s also an attack on “deeply democratic knowledge” and “therefore an attack on democracy itself.”

“Why is it the case that whenever they attack ‘wokeness,’ they attack our story?” @esglaude.bsky.social‬ asks in response to Trump’s complaints that the Smithsonian Institution overemphasizes slavery. “We cannot become passive participants in this destruction,” warns @imaniperry.bsky.social‬.

This Groundbreaking Artist Vanished. A Decade of Sleuthing Reveals Her Greatness.

New from me — on Mavis Pusey, her survey show open now at ICA Philadelphia (coming next to the Hammer in LA and Studio Museum in NYC) — and the decade of curatorial sleuthing to locate her artworks and fill out her story.

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He lost his wallet, which had his green card, and made an appointment in Philly to replace it. There he was handcuffed & taken away with no explanation. “His wife, who speaks little English, was left behind and kept in the building for 10 hours until she was released to her granddaughter.” He’s 82.

Gaza Health Ministry Says Israeli Military Killed 32 Near Aid Site The latest deaths add to U.N. figures showing that more than 670 Palestinians have been killed since May near sites built under a new Israel-backed aid system.

Israeli soldiers opened fire near a food distribution site in southern Gaza on Saturday, killing at least 32 people, Gazan health authorities said. The UN said this past week that more than 670 Palestinians had been killed in similar episodes near aid sites.

I was 9 years old when I met Thomas Sayers Ellis. I called him “little Malcolm” then because of his glasses, and knew the “Sayers” was due to him being nice with a football. He was a complicated man (to put it delicately) and a brilliant poet, drummer, and photographer. May his death be peace.

US Supreme Court OKs Trump’s Gutting of Education Department The U.S. Supreme Court is allowing President Donald Trump to put his plan to dismantle the U.S. Education Department back on track.

The U.S. Supreme Court is allowing President Donald Trump to put his plan to dismantle the Education Department back on track—and to go through with laying off nearly 1,400 employees.

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I have no words. Everyone prepared for the constitutional crisis of the President defying the SCOTUS. The crisis is the SCOTUS being fully aligned with Trump’s vision of presidential power. So here we are.

Solomon Northup: From freeman in NY to slave in New Orleans An account of what it was like for some enslaved people to make the weeks-long journey by ship from the mid-Atlantic states to be sold in the New Orleans slave market of the 1840s.

Through captive eyes: The cruel journey to the New Orleans slave market veritenews.org/2025/07/14/d...

Here are the nonfiction books NPR staffers have loved so far this year A deep dive on gossip. Revolutionary history. A meditation on muscle. A closer look at the color blue. And memoirs galore. There's something for everyone on this nonfiction summer reading list.

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SNCC: The Importance of its Work, the Value of its Legacy SNCC Staff singing a Freedom Song in SNCC’s National office (Atlanta,1963). They are wearing coats because there was no heat. L-R: Mike Sayer, MacArthur Cotton, James Forman, Rick Manning, Marion Barr...

Textbook stories on CRM focus on segregation. But a bigger issue was daily, random, brutal violence against all African Americans and white allies.

Students need to learn that history -- to see the 🧵& learn how to organize for change.

One example is from SNCC ⬇️
sncclegacyproject.org/legacy/

Backed by the colors of the lesbian flag painted on a wall, a 3D mockup of Imani Perry’s LOOKING FOR LORRAINE displayed as an eBook on a tablet next to the text “Pride Month” written in rainbow colors and a raised fist for the I.

“Though her romantic relationships remain, for me, somewhat opaque, it is unquestionable that her desire for women and her love of women was meaningful as part of her politics, her intellectual life, and her aesthetics, as well as her spirit.” — @imaniperry.bsky.social #PrideMonth

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Devil's Bargain: How the slave trade built New Orleans A new project from Verite News examines the role of the slave trade in building and sustaining New Orleans.

Please read and follow this powerful new series from Verite News about how slavery built New Orleans veritenews.org/2025/05/29/d...

Schomburg book festival! (You’re in NYC right?)

Announcing the 2025–26 Season Lineup for Portland Arts & Lectures Join us in the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall for another five evenings of incredible authors and artists sharing how they make their work and their insights into our world.

We announced the lineup for our 41st season of Portland Arts & Lectures.

🔖 @lizgilbert.bsky.social
🔖 Percival Everett
🔖 Colm Tóibín
🔖 @imaniperry.bsky.social
🔖 @praddenkeefe.bsky.social

We look forward to joining you for season! 🤩 lit-arts.org/PAL-lineup-2...