Imani Perry More Beautiful

Published: Sept. 26, 2019, 7:47 p.m.

b'James Baldwin said, \\u201cAmerican history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.\\u201d Imani Perry embodies that prism. For the past few years, Perry has been pondering the notions of slow work and resistant joy as she writes about what it means to raise her two black sons \\u2014 as a thinker and writer at the intersection of law, race, culture, and literature. This live conversation was recorded at the Chautauqua Institution.'