From planting periwinkles on the graves of slaves, to the blues itself, the colour blue was core to Black Americans’ pursuit ...

Ad Policy (Kevin Peragine) This article appears in the May 2025 issue, with the headline “Q&A: Imani Perry.”. Although Imani Perry has long chronicled Black life with an expansive eye, her ...

Imani Perry traces the history and symbolism of the color blue, from the indigo of the slave trade, to Coretta Scott King's wedding dress, to present day cobalt mining. Her new book is Black in Blues.

Sorry white and gold people, 'the dress' is actually blue and black. There is a definitive answer to the color question. The retailer of the dress, Roman Originals, confirmed that the dress is ...

Perry’s memory of Brother Blue’s teachings resonates with the end of Langston Hughes’s 1926 essay “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain,” in which the poet writes that Black people ...

The infamous white and gold or blue and black dress that went viral turns 10. ... ‘The Dress’ is 10 years old — and people still can’t agree on what color it is.

Black people aren’t the only ones to be cast in contradiction in imperial imaginations. It is a long-repeated strategy. But here I’m sitting with what it did and does to the inside of Black life.

"From this day on, the world will be divided into two people. Blue & black, or white & gold," the official Ellen Show account posted. Why did people see "the dress" in different colors? Due to ...