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 ...

Short reviews of recent releases.

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

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.

Fresh Air A new book explains what the color blue can teach us about Black history. Imani Perry traces the history and ...