Imani Perry The Fabric of Our Identity
Imani Perry is a scholar of law, culture, race \u2014 and hip hop. She acknowledges wise voices who say that we will never get to the promised land of racial equality. She writes, \u201cThat may very well be true, but it is also true that extraordinary things have happened and keep happening in our history. The question is, how do we prepare for and precipitate them?\u201d We took her up on this emboldening question at the Chautauqua Institution, on the cusp of yet a new collective reckoning with the racial fabric of American life. The first in a four-part series, \u201cThe American Consciousness.\u201d