‘The blue blues have never left us’: a new book examines the color’s spanning ties to Black culture
Imani Perry’s Black in Blues traces the ways blue is woven through Black history, from Miles Davis to Toni Morrison
What makes blue Black?
In her latest book, Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People, the scholar and writer Imani Perry traces the spanning, interdisciplinary connection between the color blue and the Black diaspora.
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