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

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

Imani Perry finds room to improvise, to think on the page in what feels like real time. Her work walks a line between ...

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

"South to America" author Imani Perry's "Black in Blues" explores the Black community's enduring fascination with the color ...

Perry won the 2022 National Book Award for Nonfiction for South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the ...

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.

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 ...

When the historian and writer Imani Perry asked her cousin which hue of blue he liked best, he was only a small child. Still, she recalls, he was already familiar with “an encyclopedia of shades.” ...