Imani Perry: Looking for Lorraine
Tue Apr 16, 2019
7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
60 mins
Location: Toronto Reference Library, Bram & Bluma Appel Salon, 789 Yonge Street, Toronto, ON
Imani Perry is the Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University. She is the author of several books, most recently Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry.
Exploring the inspiration behind Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun, Perry also uncovers the playwright's fight against racism and homophobia. This 2018 New York Times Notable Book is a revealing portrait of one of the most gifted and charismatic, yet least understood, Black artists and intellectuals of the twentieth century.
Hear Imani Perry discuss her powerful biography of Lorraine Hansberry--a life full of creation, tragically cut short. In conversation with Ravi Jain.
Q&A and book signing to follow. Books available for purchase.
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