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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Imani Perry may be in the business of writing about the past, but the award-winning author and educator is often thinking about ...

In her latest book, Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People, Harvard professor and National Book Award winner Imani Perry examines the distinct connection between Black culture and ...

University professors Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., Imani Perry, and Julian Zelizer gathered on Wednesday to discuss the 1968 Kerner Report — a Johnson-era federal document analyzing race riots occurring ...

Has President Barack Obama’s first term embodied the idealism of the 2008 campaign? The answer is debatable, according to interviews with nine prominent black academics in the run-up to next year’s ...

Our guest today is Imani Perry. Her latest book is “South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation.” In it she writes that understanding this country starts with ...