Imani Perry, 'Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People'

Perry Flyer

Date and Time

September 24, 2025
12:00PM - 01:30PM EDT

Location

Hiphop Archive & Research Institute at the Hutchins Center

In-person and livestreaming at youtube.com/hutchinscenter

Imani Perry is an American interdisciplinary scholar of race, law, literature, and African American culture. She is currently 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, a Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute, and a columnist for The Atlantic.

Part of the W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute Weekly Colloquium Series

Colloquia are held Wednesdays at Noon, September 10 - November 19 (excluding November 5), in the Hiphop Archive & Research Institute at the Hutchins Center

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