Imani Perry with Dolen Perkins-Valdez - Black In Blues
Fri, Nov 7 at 4pm
National Book Award-winning author of South to America, Imani Perry, named “The most important interpreter of Black life in our time” by Eddie S. Glaude Jr, discusses her latest book Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People.
Tracing the way that blue is woven through Black history, from Miles Davis to Toni Morrison, her book echoes Louis Armstrong’s question, “What did I do to be so Black and Blue?” Imani Perry uses the world’s favorite color as a springboard for an emotional, cultural, and spiritual journey that transcends politics or ideology.
Imani Perry will be in conversation with novelist Dolen Perkins-Valdez.
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