The story goes that the lyrics to “ Black and Blue ,” the jazz standard popularized by Louis Armstrong, were written at ...

In Black in Blues, Imani Perry reaches to the height of the sky and the depth of the ocean, casting the history of blue as ...

For cultural scholar and author Imani Perry, a professor at Harvard University and the writer of Looking for Lorraine: The ...

But blue is also the colour of deep melancholy and heartache, echoing Louis Armstrong's question, "What did I do to be so ...

Imani Perry's latest book, Black in Blues, is an evocative exploration of what the colour can tell us about being Black in ...

Imani Perry's new book, 'Black in Blues,' explores the connections between the color blue and Black identity, continuing her challenge of Southern misconceptions and fostering community.

Gass wrote in On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry; “it is the color consciousness becomes when caressed.”) The beats of Perry’s story are not unfamiliar; Black in Blues does not position ...