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Imani Perry
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Writer, Intellectual, Professor, Mother, Daughter, Sister, Child of God, nothing more, nothing less: http://imaniperryauthor.com/
Horrifying reminders of why one’s politics should never be thought of in binary terms regardless of the system we have.
November 10, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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OMG! This is BIG news, @imaniperry.bsky.social!
Imani Perry follows Sara Birmingham to Random House in a two-book deal, Viking takes Isle McElroy’s third novel, and more.
October 28, 2025 at 9:05 AM
@abcnews4.com Dissapointing AI generated and FALSE article published on your site: abcnews4.com/lowcountry-l...
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
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October 17, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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.
August 24, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Look at the gorgeous blue bench and cushions at Harriett's Bookshop! What a great place to get a copy of BLACK IN BLUES by @imaniperry.bsky.social
August 24, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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.
August 24, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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“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.
‘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.”
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August 23, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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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.

GIFT LINK

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/a...
This Groundbreaking Artist Vanished. A Decade of Sleuthing Reveals Her Greatness.
www.nytimes.com
July 19, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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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.
July 19, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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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.
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.
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July 19, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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.
July 19, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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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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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.
www.mississippifreepress.org
July 14, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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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.
BREAKING: The Supreme Court allows the Trump administration to move forward with the abolition of the Department of Education. It gives no explanation for its order. All three liberals dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

From Sotomayor's dissent:
July 14, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Through captive eyes: The cruel journey to the New Orleans slave market veritenews.org/2025/07/14/d...
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.
veritenews.org
July 14, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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This is legitimately terrifying. Almost 10 million people live within the city limits of Tehran with another almost 7 million additional people in the metro area. There are 8 million people in NYC. How the FUCK would we all be able to "evacuate" with no notice??? THIS IS EVIL. PERIOD.
June 16, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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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/
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...
sncclegacyproject.org
June 14, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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“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
June 11, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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June 4, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Please read and follow this powerful new series from Verite News about how slavery built New Orleans veritenews.org/2025/05/29/d...
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.
veritenews.org
May 29, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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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...
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.
lit-arts.org
May 9, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Dr. Carla Hayden is a people's librarian.

Her term goes until 2026 and should remain that way.

Don't comply with unjust laws and practices.

#FreedomtoRead @librarycongress.bsky.social

mag.uchicago.edu/hayden
Librarian for the people
Under the leadership of Carla D. Hayden, AM’77, PhD’87, a revered institution is connecting Americans with their country through its treasures.
mag.uchicago.edu
May 9, 2025 at 2:17 AM
A little levity youtu.be/hDyjYi4phoU?...
Pope
YouTube video by Prince - Topic
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May 9, 2025 at 2:21 AM
My godmother is an elder New Orleans Creole nun. I cannot *wait* to talk to her about Pope Leo. I know she is tickled.
May 9, 2025 at 1:32 AM
From 2021, on Pulitzer finalist Gayl Jones www.nytimes.com/2021/09/17/m...
She Changed Black Literature Forever. Then She Disappeared. (Published 2021)
www.nytimes.com
May 8, 2025 at 4:53 PM