Think Out Loud

Award-winning author Imani Perry at Woodburn High School

By Sage Van Wing (OPB)
Feb. 12, 2026 4:07 p.m.

Broadcast: Thursday, February 12

In books like “Breathe” and “South to America,” National Book Award and MacArthur “genius” grant winner Imani Perry writes about Blackness in America with clarity, elegance, rage, and joy. Perry is a Professor of Studies of Women, Gender and Sexuality and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University.

Her latest book is “Black in Blues,” a meditation on the color blue and its role in Black history and culture. Perry talks to us in front of an audience of students at Woodburn High School.

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