Imani Perry traces the history and symbolism of the color blue, from the indigo of the slave trade, to Coretta Scott King's ...

How a Color Tells the Story of My People, published by Harper Collins this month. Below, she discusses Black excellence and ...

The scholar recommends four inventive books that offer instruction on how to create meaning, beauty, and intimacy amid ...

Short reviews of recent releases.

Imani Perry’s essay collection “Black in Blues” threads together the cultures and lore of the Black diaspora into an ...

Public intellectual Imani Perry will be in conversation with actor Andre Holland for a special event at the Birmingham Museum ...

Imani Perry’s impressionistic “Black in Blues” finds shades of meaning — beautiful and ugly — in art, artifacts, music, fashion and more.

How a Color Tells the Story of My People,” Imani Perry approaches her subject as an abundant and lyrical mystery ...

Harvard professor and Birmingham, Alabama, native Imani Perry won the 2022 National Book Award for nonfiction for “South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation.

Like the color blue, Imani Perry’s “Black in Blues” is vast, multifaceted and enchanting. Perry’s book, also like the hue, defies categorization. Her exploration of blue is presented in 35 tight, ...