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

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

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

“Imani is one of the most important writers of this period,” said Eddie S. Glaude Jr., a Princeton professor who co-taught a ...

Imani Perry traces the history and symbolism of the color blue, from the indigo of the slave trade, to Coretta Scott King's wedding dress, to present day cobalt mining. Her new book is Black in Blues.

What do Coretta Scott King's wedding dress, jazz and the middle passage all have in common? Scholar and author Imani Perry explains ... Dyed indigo cloths in West Africa were traded for ...