What do Coretta Scott King's wedding dress, jazz and the middle passage all have in common? Scholar and author Imani Perry explains — it's the color blue. In her new book, Black in Blues: How a Color ...

Imani Perry’s new book, Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People, begins with a memory of blue: A missing dropped-ceiling tile in her grandmother’s bedroom reveals a glimpse of the ...

The color has an unshakable hold on musicians, artists and writers. The background color is inspired by International Klein Blue, a hue that the artist Yves Klein first mixed in the 1950s, using it to ...

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... A new book explains what the color blue can teach us ...