A new book explains what the color blue can teach us about Black history
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on April 23, 2025
What do Coretta Scott King's wedding dress, jazz and the middle passage all have in common? 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 melancholy throughout Black history.
"There was something about the universality of the color blue and ... the way in which those two senses of blue coincided so profoundly that actually, for me, became a pathway to thinking about Blackness," Perry says.
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