Imani Perry

She/her/hers. Writer/intellectual/mother Professor @Harvard rep. by @CindyUh @CAA Speaking @LyceumAgency

[Democracy Now! @democracynow]

Federal Court Blocks Alabama from Using New Congressional Map https://t.co/2bnEsDseP7

[Ayanna Pressley @AyannaPressley]

Philadelphia, today is Election Day!

It's time to decisively elect @ChrisRabb and make this bold, activist leader the Democratic nominee for Congress from the PA-03.

Polls are open until 8pm. If you want to get involved today, sign up here: https://t.co/zHu4Jka3X4

[The Movement History Initiative @MHImovement]

Haven't read our first Movement Makers feature? What are you waiting on?!

Read and be inspired! ✨️ https://t.co/qPzfjEl5vL

#movementhistory @YPeoplesProject

[LA Times Festival of Books @latimesfob]

Do you hear that? 🗣️🎙️ These @latimes Book Prizes audiobook narrators are coming straight from your headphones to the festival stage. Thanks to @audible_com, this is your chance to see them live!

Join us Saturday, April 18, for “Standouts in Audio: A Conversation with the Audiobook Award Finalists,” including @imaniperry @MollyJongFast @gildeak and others. 📚🎧

Admission is free! Learn more at https://t.co/2RFMNUEkLn! #bookfest

[The Movement History Initiative @MHImovement]

Not ready for Women’s History Month to end? Us either!

Check out Movement Makers—highlighting people influenced by SNCC’s #grassrootsorganizing legacy. Our first issue features Maisha Moses, Executive Director of @YPeoplesProject

Read Now https://t.co/qPzfjEl5vL

[#PettyPendergrass @ashoncrawley]

cover reveal for FROM INFINITE WORLD … very grateful for the design team and everyone at @wwnorton!

also, i am so very grateful for the generous and kind blurbs from @imaniperry, @deeshaphilyaw and sarah schulman! preorder today!

[Greensboro Bound @GreensboroBound]

With Weatherspoon Art Museum, we welcome National Book Award winner and MacArthur Fellow @imaniperry to our 2026 Book Festival.

In Black in Blues, she explores how art, memory, and history shape the American story.

A defining voice for our American Kaleidoscope.

[NOLA Book Festival @NOLAbookfest]

It’s a beautiful day for a book festival! Welcome to day 2⃣ at #NOLABookFest!

Today you’ll hear from @walterisaacson @KenBurns @imaniperry @nolacampanella @KikiBakerBarnes @cjfarley @MollyJongFast @esglaude @MitchLandrieu @CharlesMBlow @agordonreed @DM_Rubenstein @jmart and many more!

View the schedule: https://t.co/nzVfuQ3Zf9

[LA Times Festival of Books @latimesfob]

We're so excited that @latimes Book Prize finalist @imaniperry is joining us at @bookfest! 🌟

Perry is the National Book Award–winning author of "South to America," as well as "Black in Blues" and seven other books of nonfiction. She is the Henry A. Morss Jr. and Elisabeth W. Morss Professor of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University, and is a 2023 MacArthur Fellow.

On Saturday, April 18, don't miss her on the panel, "Standouts in Audio: A Conversation with the Audiobook Award Finalists." Learn more at https://t.co/2RFMNUEkLn!

[Juana Peña @Chris_Montz]

Se hizo una convocatoria pública para que todos los trombonistas de Nueva York llevaran su instrumento y despidieran a Willie Colón hoy, a la salida de su féretro de la Catedral de San Patricio, donde se celebró una misa en su honor. Mira el resultado:

[Janai Nelson @JNelsonLDF]

Bernard Lafayette was a legend in the civil rights movement. He was also a former client of LDF. What an incalculable loss. We lift up his memory in absolute reverence.

Bernard LaFayette, Freedom Rider and Selma voting rights organizer, dies at 85 https://t.co/rUA9Sah31K

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

The secretary of Miami-Dade County’s GOP started a group chat for conservative students

Within 3 weeks, it was filled with over 400 instances of the N-word, Nazi rhetoric and writings of "dozens of ways of violently killing Black people" https://t.co/ZZhPSI7RDE

[Imani Perry @imaniperry]

💕💕💕💕💕

[Bodega Baddie @CAMONGHNE]

Today is pub day! Please grab Let The Poets Govern from your nearest and most cherished bookstore. I feel so lucky to be able to do this. And so grateful to have had the chance to share it with you. Xo

[Imani Perry @imaniperry]

https://t.co/GjqNUzLoHZ #kirkusreviews

[Callie Crossley @CallieCrossley]

Also, if you want to hear more from Tayari Jones, she'll be at The Brattle Theatre this week in conversation with Wellesley Professor Kellie Carter Jackson! More information can be found here: https://t.co/bBSD6422Rc

[AAIHS @AAIHS]

✨The College of Charleston’s @avery_research presents 'Those Who Have Must Turn Around & Give: Celebrating 40 Years of Preserving Black History and Education,' a symposium on the critical intersections of Black education, archives & community engagement.

https://t.co/DwmMlojOyp

[Toril Moi @TorilMoi]

Register for the Jameson conference at Duke April 10-12! "Fredric Jameson and the Future of Critical Theory." Click here for the registration form: https://t.co/WV7YHGTN2q

[Mukoma Wa Ngugi @MukomaWaNgugi]

I have never believed writers write alone - we are always in conversation. For my 55th b-day, I made a list of 55 books, essays, and writers that I envy and love, teach and have influenced my own writing. The invitation? Make a list that matches your age.
https://t.co/aHXMi0lA5z

[Jericho Movement @Jericho4PPs]

“We Are Striking a Blow at the State:” The Alabama Prisoners Work Strike https://t.co/JjHCecUM85 via @scalawagmag

[Imani Perry @imaniperry]

His recording of “The House I Live” In a few months prior to this release included a brief quotation of “Lift Every Voice” and Sing that is gorgeous and so elegant.

[Sonny Rollins @sonnyrollins]

On this day in 1958, Sonny Rollins records his album Freedom Suite. "America is deeply rooted in Negro culture... How ironic that the Negro, who more than any other people can claim America's culture as his own... is being rewarded with inhumanity." –S.R. https://t.co/TqEdjeSS45