Imani Perry

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.