Scholar and author Imani Perry explains — it's the color blue. In her new book, Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People, Perry explores blue as a symbol of both hope and ...

We spoke with the scholar about Black in Blues, a poetic exploration of the relationship between the color blue and Black people. Although Imani Perry has long chronicled Black life with an ...

In Black in Blues, Imani Perry reaches to the height of the sky and the depth of the ocean, casting the history of blue as one of both triumph and tragedy, possibility and limitation. Imani Perry ...

Some saw it as blue and black while others saw it as white and gold. So how did this craze even begin? Cecilia Bleasdale sent a photo of the dress to her daughter, Grace. Bleasdale wanted to know ...

a genre that melds Black suffering with Black pride. And as I read the book, the origin story of haint blue kept flitting across my memory because it, too, evokes that duality. The color’s ...

Then, it absolutely blew up. A decade later, an argument is still likely to ensue if you ask the now-infamous question: blue and black or white and gold? In the USA TODAY newsroom just this week ...