"Freedom knows a thin or thick wallet ain’t nothing to a forest of hearts." Professor, author, and National Book Award winner @imaniperry.bsky.social answers the question, What is Freedom. ➡️ buff.ly/D7cRBCt
Imani Perry
@imaniperry.bsky.social
Writer, Intellectual, Professor, Mother, Daughter, Sister, Child of God, nothing more, nothing less: http://imaniperryauthor.com/
"If I hear of anybody coming into town, meeting with those dogs over supper, cutting deals with Walmart, and a baby's blood has filled the streets, we gonna have a problem,” Jaribu Hill said.
Mississippians March for 1-Year-Old Kohen Wiley, Demanding Justice After Police Shooting
On a sweltering Friday morning at a Walmart in Senatobia, Mississippi, nearly 100 protesters gathered to memorialize Kohen Kartier Wiley.
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Cape Verde defeats Argentina via a 2-3 loss in extra time
News Editor Ashton Pittman argues that the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent ruling gutting the Voting Rights Act “relies on feigned colorblindness to racist systems,” enabling even Jim Crow policies to flourish. www.mississippifreepress.org/editors-note...
Editor’s Note | Even Jim Crow Is ‘Colorblind’ Now Under This Supreme Court. I Am Not.
News Editor Ashton Pittman argues that the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent ruling gutting the Voting Rights Act “relies on feigned colorblindness to racist systems,” enabling even Jim Crow-style policies…
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"The Court’s shameless decision to reinstate an intentionally racially discriminatory map defies any thoughtful or consistent application of the law,” Deuel Ross, director of litigation for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, said Tuesday night.
Supreme Court Allows Alabama to Use US House Map That Eliminates a Majority-Black District
The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed Alabama to use a congressional map favoring Republicans in this year’s elections.
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More on Nora Holt from the genius @imaniperry.bsky.social
Nora Holt: The Most Famous Woman You've Never Heard of
A largely forgotten figure of the Harlem Renaissance and Chicago Renaissance, Holt was a Black female musician, composer, critic and free spirit, and she has a story that deserves to be told.
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Eddie Glaude: Don't Let MAGA Own America's 250th Anniversary
As we barrel towards July 4th, Trump wants the celebration of our country's 250th anniversary to be not only about him but also about America as a white republic.
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Sonny Rollins, one of the most influential Jazz musicians of our time, died this afternoon. He was 95
There’s a massive immigration operation in Memphis right now, but you may not have heard about it. Why? Community members face retaliation for trying to spread the word out, a lawsuit alleges.
Memphis is “under full-blown occupation” by ICE. Here’s why you may not know that.
Community members face retaliation for trying to spread the word out, a lawsuit alleges.
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I am facilitating two workshops this Saturday as part of our Warehouse exhibition. Two registration links are below and will help me know how much material to bring. #1 - www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/thi... #2 - www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/tal...
"This is a political will to white power." Scholars @imaniperry.bsky.social and @esglaude.bsky.social reflect on how the GOP is actively taking away Black Americans' political power. "All eyes ought to be on the South." #Velshi
'All eyes ought to be on the South': Imani Perry and Eddie Glaude on the GOP's 'white power grab'
Southern states are taking advantage of a pair of recent Supreme Court decisions in order to quickly re-make their congressional maps ahead of November’s midterms. In effect, the political power of many Black Americans are being taken away. “All eyes ought to be on the South,” Harvard professor Imani Perry tells Antonia Hylton. Princeton professor Eddie Glaude adds that what’s happening is “a political will to white power.”
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'My family settled in a place that wasn’t made for us and called it home. How is that for a metaphor of Black American life?' We're thrilled to share an extract from @imaniperry.bsky.social's forthcoming book BLACK IN BLUES: HOW A COLOUR TELLS THE STORY OF MY PEOPLE (Allen Lane).
Extract — Black in Blues: How a Colour Tells the Story of My People by Imani Perry
Read an extract from Imani Perry's Black in Blues: How a Colour Tells the Story of My People (Allen Lane, 2026).
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Baltimore did right by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, marking her 200th! Thanks to Dr. Ida Jones, Dr. Lawrence Jackson, the team at Hard Histories, and the many others who made these celebrations possible. www.jhunewsletter.com/article/2026...
Remembering Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and being bound together
Each year, the Billie Holiday Center for Liberation Arts sponsors a free public lecture. The most recent lecture covered Frances Ellen Watkins Harper in celebration of her 200th birthday. Harper was t...
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And one of my five is out! Trump continues his habit of forcing out only his female Cabinet secretaries. bsky.app/profile/notu...
Garrett M. Graff@vermontgmg.bsky.social · 4mo agoWashington can only pay attention to a scandal or two at a time, which means in the Trump age there are all sorts of should-be-big-deal scandals that don’t get the oxygen or media focus that they should. I'll bet you've missed at least three of these: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/five-trump...
Doing a live pod this Saturday at the LA Times Festival of Books with my pal @bitracial.bsky.social (host of the Stacks pod) and @imaniperry.bsky.social 12:30 pm at the podcast stage
I would like to uplift and remind all of us that people across the country are organizing against detention and are fighting the warehouse concentration camps. You can get connected to the work by joining a mass call on 4/14 - www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
Movement Call: National Day of Action to Stop ICE Warehouse Detention · Indivisible
The Trump administration is converting warehouses across the country into mass detention facilities — and communities are already fighting back. Join Indivisible, Detention Watch Network, Disappeared ...
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April 6 marks the 100th birthday of the great Randy Weston. We're putting on a free concert in Cambridge, MA on April 12 at 4pm to commemorate him and launch an incredible exhibit drawn from his archives: bluestoafrica.eventbrite.com
Blues to Africa: The Randy Weston Centennial
A special concert celebrating pianist and composer Randy Weston's contributions to the jazz canon and his enduring musical legacy.
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Teaching a new workshop on May 9 to get people revved up to write for this year's #1000wordsofsummer (and forever) www.jamiattenberg.com/workshops
WORKSHOPS — JAMI ATTENBERG
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Even better, there's a magnificent book by @imaniperry.bsky.social that goes through the history of Lift Every Voice btw, it was the Black National Anthem before the Star Spangled Banner was America's National Anthem
Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle@dytsras.bsky.social · 6mo agoim seeing some troubling discourse around the Black National Anthem. So instead of engaging, I'll just repost this
Happy Birthday, Antonio Gramsci! He was born on this day in Sardinia in 1891. His prison writing inspired the @conjuncture.bsky.social podcast that @cheatherton.bsky.social and I produced for last 5 years. You can check out our previous interviews here: trinitysocialjustice.com/conjuncture-...
For Public Picks, Global Black History editor @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social recs @imaniperry.bsky.social's "Black in Blues," Nicholas Boggs's "Baldwin: A Love Story," Joycelyn Longdon's "Natural Connection" & @dorothyjberry.bsky.social's "The House Archives Built."
Public Picks 2025 - Public Books
What were the books of 2025 that dazzled, challenged, and inspired us?
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