In this book, celebrated author Imani Perry uses the world’s favorite color ... herself as she is the others around her, namely her ex-husband, as well as the fractured society that makes ...

Our favorite books by Black authors Growing up as a young Black girl in the South, I saw positive representations of Black ...

Unafraid of sentimentality, it's also blackly comedic, with a sharp edge and plot lines that would definitely make Sheldon's mother, Mary Cooper's (Zoe Perry ... dentist ex-husband-to-be ...

Currently, Sundance is eliminating its next host city like it’s Tyra Banks. (Atlanta, you will not be Sundance’s Next Top City.) But that, wherever they end up, won’t go into effect until ...

The story goes that the lyrics to “ Black and Blue ,” the jazz standard popularized by Louis Armstrong, were written at ...

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 ...

The beats of Perry’s story are not unfamiliar; Black in Blues does not position itself as revisionist. What’s compelling, when and where Perry peers inside of the familiar, through her black ...

Imani Perry’s new books is “Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People.”Credit...Dana Scruggs for The New York Times Supported by By Robert Ito Imani Perry often finds herself ...