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Imani Perry: Tracing blue through Black American life

Imani Perry: Tracing blue through Black American life

Update: 2025-02-02
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Imani Perry’s latest book, Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People, is an evocative exploration of what the colour can tell us about being Black in the United States today — and the extraordinary human capacity to find beauty in the face of devastation. Imani speaks to Mattea Roach about tracing blue through history, music, and her own life.


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