Here's a philosophical question for you. If a color doesn't have a name, can we still see it? Many years ago, the human eye ...

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.

Blue is humanity’s favorite color, and no wonder. It’s everywhere: the sky, the sea that makes our earth resemble a Big Blue Marble, the internet (That Dress; “I’m looking for a man in ...

You’ve probably heard that all people with blue eyes are related, but is there any truth to that statement? Or if there is, why? It turns out the genetic history of blue eyes is pretty twisty and ...

Blue is also the color of the slave trade: Dyed indigo cloths in West Africa were traded for human life in the 16th century. But it's also a color that Perry associates with hope, especially when she ...