National Book Award-winning author of South to America, as well as eight other books of nonfiction. She is the Henry A. Morss ...

Imani Perry traces the history and symbolism of the color blue, from the indigo of the slave trade, to Coretta Scott King's ...

Imani Perry’s impressionistic “Black in Blues” finds shades of meaning — beautiful and ugly — in art, artifacts, music, ...

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The scholar recommends four inventive books that offer instruction on how to create meaning, beauty, and intimacy amid ...

How a Color Tells the Story of My People,” Imani Perry approaches her subject as an abundant and lyrical mystery ...

Public intellectual Imani Perry will be in conversation with actor Andre Holland for a special event at the Birmingham Museum ...

As Martin Luther King Jr. Day coincides with Trump’s inauguration, author and professor Imani Perry talks about the “extended ...

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.