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 ...

Once one starts to look for it, blue is everywhere. It’s embedded in modern English language (“true blue,” “I’m feeling so ...

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

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

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.

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

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

This month's book club features Black in Blues by Imani Perry, Gather Me by Glory Edim, and for children Go Forth and Tell by ...

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, ...

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

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