Imani Perry (left) is the author of "Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People." Perry recalls how blue first spoke to her through childhood memories of her grandmother’s blue room, ...

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.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Southern states are taking advantage of a pair of recent Supreme Court decisions in order to quickly re-make their congressional ...

Perry took on misconceptions about the South (and won the National Book Award) with “South to America.” In “Black in Blues” she continues to challenge perceptions, using the color blue to examine ...

Once one starts to look for it, blue is everywhere. It’s embedded in modern English language (“true blue,” “I’m feeling so blue,” “black and blue,” etc.), in music (the blues) and in history (from the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Imani Perry may be in the business of writing about the past, but the award-winning author and educator is often thinking about ...

Imani Perry’s “South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation” was awarded the inaugural Inside Literary Prize for its insightful exploration of the cultural and ...

Imani Perry’s “Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People” is one of those books that slips the boundaries, or disregards them altogether in its way. A meditation, or a series of linked ...

The story goes that the lyrics to “Black and Blue,” the jazz standard popularized by Louis Armstrong, were written at gunpoint. In 1929, the songwriter Andy Rafaz (born Andriamanantena Paul ...