Perry took on misconceptions about the South (and won the National Book Award) with “South to America.” In “Black in Blues” she continues to challenge perceptions, using the color blue to examine ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Southern states are taking advantage of a pair of recent Supreme Court decisions in order to quickly re-make their congressional ...

The story goes that the lyrics to “Black and Blue,” the jazz standard popularized by Louis Armstrong, were written at gunpoint. In 1929, the songwriter Andy Rafaz (born Andriamanantena Paul ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — Public intellectual Imani Perry will be in conversation with actor Andre Holland for a special event at the Birmingham Museum of Art next month. Perry and Holland, both ...

Imani Perry’s “South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation” was awarded the inaugural Inside Literary Prize for its insightful exploration of the cultural and ...

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.

Imani Perry’s “Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People” is one of those books that slips the boundaries, or disregards them altogether in its way. A meditation, or a series of linked ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Imani Perry may be in the business of writing about the past, but the award-winning author and educator is often thinking about ...

When I was living in West Philadelphia during graduate school, I noticed that my neighborhood abounded with ornately decorated Victorian-style porches, many of which featured ceilings painted in a ...

Human beings have a tendency toward collection. I have a theory that this desire to hang onto things is more true in times of crisis, but lately, I’ve begun to believe that we also have a tendency ...