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2025 selection · Nonfiction
Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People
Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People by Imani Perry appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, eye-opening reads, for history lovers, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
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