Walk into any children's clothing store and you'll see it immediately: the great divide. Blues, greens, reds, and blacks flood the boys' section, while pink and purple dominate the girls' area. But is ...

Ptil Tekhelet sells tzitzit, or fringes attached to the corners of Jewish prayer shawls, colored with dye from the Murex trunculus snail Courtesy of Ptil Tekhelet/Moshe Caine Thousands of years ago, ...

What do Coretta Scott King's wedding dress, jazz and the middle passage all have in common? Scholar and author Imani Perry explains — it's the color blue. In her new book, Black in Blues: How a Color ...

In this entrancing metered narrative, Brew-Hammond traces the origins of the color blue—including beliefs around the hue, methods of production and efforts “to make a blue that wasn’t so/ difficult or ...

Blue is the color of the ocean and the sky, and considering blue's color symbolism, it makes sense why this color is associated with calmness. In fact, one survey found that blue is a favorite color ...

Even though we haven’t seen much moisture in the weather department, I’ve been thinking a lot about water. Cool, blue water to be specific. Perhaps I need to go spend a weekend at the beach — or buy a ...