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Imani Perry and Maurice Carlos Ruffin delivered a conversation that was part history lesson, part cultural critique, and part sermon on survival. Imani Perry, with her blend of razor-sharp intellect and poetic cadence, challenged the myths America tells itself about freedom and progress, while Maurice Ruffin brought wit and piercing clarity to the lived realities of race, class, and power in New Orleans and beyond. Together, they wrestled with the contradictions of American democracy, the erasure of Black voices, and the radical necessity of joy as resistance. Their dialogue was less about answers than about urgency—an insistence that literature is not escape, but confrontation, and that remembering the past is the most revolutionary act we can commit.

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