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Write On, Mississippi: Season 5, Chapter 2: Imani Perry
Write On, Mississippi!
English - April 29, 2022 05:00 - 33 minutes - 45.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsSociety & Culture Leisure Hobbies mississippi book festival mpb authors writers reading biographies Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Join our host Ebony Lumumba as she talks with author and professor, Imani Perry about her latest book, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation.
Imani Perry is the Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University. Perry is the author of Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry, winner of the 2019 Bograd-Weld Biography Prize from the Pen America Foundation. She is also the author of Breathe: A Letter to My Sons; Vexy Thing: On Gender and Liberation; and May We Forever Stand: A History of the Black National Anthem. Perry, a native of Birmingham, Alabama, who grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Chicago, lives outside Philadelphia with her two sons.
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