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 ...

Click here for the original audio and to read a book excerpt. We revisit host Scott Tong’s February 2025 conversation with Harvard University professor and MacArthur Grant recipient Imani Perry about ...

In her latest book, Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People, Harvard professor and National Book Award winner Imani Perry examines the distinct connection between Black culture and ...

University professors Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., Imani Perry, and Julian Zelizer gathered on Wednesday to discuss the 1968 Kerner Report — a Johnson-era federal document analyzing race riots occurring ...

Winners in fiction, nonfiction and young readers literature will be announced at an awards ceremony Oct. 8 Amazon Introducing the 2025 Kirkus Prize finalists! The Kirkus Review journal announced its ...

NMAF copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. "A revealing portrait of one of the most gifted and charismatic, yet least understood, Black artists and intellectuals of the ...

Throughout history, the concept of Blackness has been remarkably intertwined with another color- blue. In daily life, it is evoked in countless ways. Blue skies and blue water offer hope for a life ...

In today’s episode, the authors of two recently released nonfiction books search for meaning in art. First, Elizabeth Barks Cox’s Reading Van Gogh: An Amateur’s Search for God chronicles her ...