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

How a Color Tells the Story of My People, published by Harper Collins this month. Below, she discusses Black excellence and ...

Imani Perry’s essay collection “Black in Blues” threads together the cultures and lore of the Black diaspora into an ...

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 ...

Short reviews of recent releases.

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 ...

As mortgage rates and home prices have risen, the rent vs. buy calculation has changed. If you're renting when you'd planned to buy, tell us your story.

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.