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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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 bit.ly/440NBmP

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 bookshop.org/p/books/redw...

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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...

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...

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.

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@abcnews4.com Dissapointing AI generated and FALSE article published on your site: abcnews4.com/lowcountry-l...

One of the things I keep thinking is that he is manipulating white Americans (bigotry is an easy tool of distraction) while robbing them too.

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I listen to audio recordings of my loved ones who have died. It feels like prayer to me. I cry but I also smile. They really were here, with me. What a blessing.

“Why is it the case that whenever they attack ‘wokeness,’ they attack our story?” @esglaude.bsky.social‬ asks in response to Trump’s complaints that the Smithsonian Institution overemphasizes slavery. “We cannot become passive participants in this destruction,” warns @imaniperry.bsky.social‬.

New from me — on Mavis Pusey, her survey show open now at ICA Philadelphia (coming next to the Hammer in LA and Studio Museum in NYC) — and the decade of curatorial sleuthing to locate her artworks and fill out her story. GIFT LINK www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/a...

He lost his wallet, which had his green card, and made an appointment in Philly to replace it. There he was handcuffed & taken away with no explanation. “His wife, who speaks little English, was left behind and kept in the building for 10 hours until she was released to her granddaughter.” He’s 82.

Israeli soldiers opened fire near a food distribution site in southern Gaza on Saturday, killing at least 32 people, Gazan health authorities said. The UN said this past week that more than 670 Palestinians had been killed in similar episodes near aid sites.

I was 9 years old when I met Thomas Sayers Ellis. I called him “little Malcolm” then because of his glasses, and knew the “Sayers” was due to him being nice with a football. He was a complicated man (to put it delicately) and a brilliant poet, drummer, and photographer. May his death be peace.

The U.S. Supreme Court is allowing President Donald Trump to put his plan to dismantle the Education Department back on track—and to go through with laying off nearly 1,400 employees. buff.ly/dUlSRDT

I have no words. Everyone prepared for the constitutional crisis of the President defying the SCOTUS. The crisis is the SCOTUS being fully aligned with Trump’s vision of presidential power. So here we are.

Through captive eyes: The cruel journey to the New Orleans slave market veritenews.org/2025/07/14/d...

Textbook stories on CRM focus on segregation. But a bigger issue was daily, random, brutal violence against all African Americans and white allies. Students need to learn that history -- to see the 🧵& learn how to organize for change. One example is from SNCC ⬇️ sncclegacyproject.org/legacy/

“Though her romantic relationships remain, for me, somewhat opaque, it is unquestionable that her desire for women and her love of women was meaningful as part of her politics, her intellectual life, and her aesthetics, as well as her spirit.” — @imaniperry.bsky.social #PrideMonth

Please read and follow this powerful new series from Verite News about how slavery built New Orleans veritenews.org/2025/05/29/d...

We announced the lineup for our 41st season of Portland Arts & Lectures. 🔖 @lizgilbert.bsky.social 🔖 Percival Everett 🔖 Colm Tóibín 🔖 @imaniperry.bsky.social 🔖 @praddenkeefe.bsky.social We look forward to joining you for season! 🤩 lit-arts.org/PAL-lineup-2...

Dr. Carla Hayden is a people's librarian. Her term goes until 2026 and should remain that way. Don't comply with unjust laws and practices. #FreedomtoRead @librarycongress.bsky.social mag.uchicago.edu/hayden

A little levity youtu.be/hDyjYi4phoU?...

My godmother is an elder New Orleans Creole nun. I cannot *wait* to talk to her about Pope Leo. I know she is tickled.

From 2021, on Pulitzer finalist Gayl Jones www.nytimes.com/2021/09/17/m...

Tonight is the #MetGala, celebrating the upcoming opening of the new exhibition "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style," which was inspired by Monica L. Miller's 2009 book "Slaves to Fashion." buff.ly/BTlV1TY

Strike a pose! Are you watching the #MetGala red carpet right now? Whose Superfine/Tailored For You look is your favorite so far?

There’s a lot of blue on that red carpet #justsayin 💙

A must-read with gratitude to @policingequity @sandylocks.bsky.social @imaniperry.bsky.social and the many other contributors. time.com/collections/...

Trump’s attacks on DEI threaten to erase Black history. “This is history that is happening now,” says Dr. Tracie Therence Ferrell, whose mom was born on the Whitney Plantation. The Trump admin is “trying to teach a false narrative about what this country is,” says Harvard's @imaniperry.bsky.social

I finally saw #Sinners 🩵. Friends had been texting me, saying it reminds them of Black in Blues. I see the common ground: the Blues, jaybirds, hoodoo, the crossroads, recursive time, blue beads, life after death. That font of the deep Black south is feeding so many of us right now.

🗓️ Mark your calendars: Freedom Reads Founder & CEO Reginald Dwayne Betts and acclaimed writer and winner of the inaugural #InsideLiteraryPrize @imaniperry.bsky.social in conversation at the @92ndstreety.bsky.social on June 10! Join in-person or virtually ➡️ www.92ny.org/event/regina...

Please join @cfcolemanjr.bsky.social on @velshimsnbc.bsky.social 10-12 w @jenrubin.bsky.social @joycewhitevance.bsky.social @ppofmi.bsky.social @stevebenen.com @hayesbrown.bsky.social @dgraham.bsky.social Rina Shah @imaniperry.bsky.social Tracie Therence Ferrell @benniethompson.bsky.social #Velshi

The reliability and regularity of racism in Cambridge/Boston is exhausting. It exists everywhere in this country but whew is it relentless here…

Thursday, 4/24: Featuring one of Baldwin’s most famous works, “Sonny’s Blues,” @imaniperry.bsky.social connects Baldwin’s ideas on the Blues with her own, exploring, as she does in her new book, Black in Blues. You don't want to miss out on this illuminating talk! authorsguild.org/event/readin...

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I just learned Bookshop now sells ebooks. So we can shop our favorite indie bookstore for digital books : bookshop.org/ebooks

60yrs after the “Bloody Sunday” attack on peaceful protesters in Selma, “We're sitting here grappling with these same kinds of roll backs in justice,” says poet & Pettus descendant Caroline Williams. We must “complete the unfinished business of the freedom movement,” says @imaniperry.bsky.social.

I am more interested in the traditions of Black love, grace, and mercy than the slogan “Black excellence.” Virtuosity is as virtue does.