# Imani Perry, 'Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People' ![Perry Flyer](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_5_4__480x385/public/2025-09/PerryColloq.jpg?h=f2b9dfcf&itok=01Nf9qPZ) #### calendar\_today Date and Time **September 24, 2025** 12:00PM - 01:30PM EDT #### pin\_drop Location **Hiphop Archive & Research Institute at the Hutchins Center** [104 Mount Auburn Street Floor 2R Cambridge, MA 02138 United States ]() In-person and livestreaming at [youtube.com/hutchinscenter](https://www.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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_studies) and of [African and African American Studies](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_studies) at [Harvard University](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_University), a Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the [Harvard Radcliffe Institute](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Radcliffe_Institute), and a columnist for [*The Atlantic*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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 [ Learn More About the 2025-2026 Fellows and their Projects arrow\_circle\_right ](https://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/current-fellows) [ Watch Livestreams and Past Colloquia on YouTube arrow\_circle\_right ](https://www.youtube.com/hutchinscenter) Share on:- [ Facebook ](#) - [ Twitter ](#) - [ Linkedin ](#) Save: [ Add to calendar calendar\_today ](https://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/node/1638826/event-feed.ics) Copy link link