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What The Color Blue Tells About Black History by NPR

What The Color Blue Tells About Black History

from Fresh Air

by NPR

Published: Tue Jan 28 2025

Show Notes

Award-winning author and scholar 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.

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