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...
And one of my five is out! Trump continues his habit of forcing out only his female Cabinet secretaries.
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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/...
A gofundme is organized for them.
www.gofundme.com/f/9wup9u-hel...
The chapter Montgomery, Newport, Cape Verde, Accra. From Imani Perry's book Black in Blues
@imaniperry.bsky.social this chapter was incredible!!
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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
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
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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
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That’s not me
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-...
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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."
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Not so far, but I retained copyright and I would love to update it and have it put in print.
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Phenomenal list of 2025 nonfiction - Edgar Gomez, Caro de Robertis, Melissa Febos, Yiyun Li, Imani Perry, Andrea Long Chu and so many more greats! electricliterature.com/electric-lit...
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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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.
