Singer-songwriter, rapper, bassist, and activist Meshell Ndegeocello is an architect of neosoul and contemporary R&B. Imani Perry is a prolific writer, legal and cultural studies scholar, professor and freedom dreamer. Join these two cutting edge cultural workers as they center Meshell’s virtuosic work as a recording artist and composer, consider the costs and pleasures of being interdisciplinary artists and thinkers, and the political imperatives of creative expression.