Tag: Lorraine Hansberry

  • Nation & World

    Imani Perry’s arrival marks homecoming, expansion

    Accomplished scholar, National Book Award winner will blend teaching in African American studies, women and gender studies.

    5 minutes
    Imani Perry.
  • Nation & World

    Writing Black lives

    “Writing Black Lives,” a Radcliffe talk by three biographers that explored how the lives and work of three influential Americans — federal judge and activist Constance Baker Motley, playwright Lorraine Hansberry, and author James Baldwin — helped shape and are still shaping conversations around black politics, community, identity, and life.

    5 minutes
    Robert Reid-Pharr, Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Imani Perry.