Perry took on misconceptions about the South (and won the National Book Award) with “South to America.” In “Black in Blues” ...

The International African American Museum offers incredible will feature everything from from poetry readings to ...

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

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

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

National Book Award-winning author of South to America, as well as eight other books of nonfiction. She is the Henry A. Morss ...

Black in Blues, by Imani Perry (Ecco). This cultural history of the color blue, and how it threads through Black lives and “the peculiar institution of slavery,” opens with the indigo trade in ...

Anna Rita Scott and Ayo Scott: 6:30 p.m., Cita Dennis Hubbell Library, 725 Pelican Ave., Algiers. The author, Scott's widow, and son who illustrated the cover, discuss the book "Passing It On: The Art ...