The color purple has long been a symbol of royalty, creativity, and mystery. But according to science, it's also something else: a figment of our imaginations. While it looks just as real as red or ...

An American novel classic has made its way its hometown stage. For the first time since the book was released in 1982 and its film adaptation in 1985, “The Color Purple” premiered as a musical ...

“The Color Purple” — a movie adaptation of Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel directed by Stephen Spielberg and starring unknown movie actors Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey and Margaret Avery ...

Want to know how to style the color purple for summer 2026? Here are a few tips. One way to stand out this summer? Mix purple with other colors that are as striking, if not moreso, such as cherry red ...

The world is awash with the color purple — lavender flowers, amethyst gemstones, plums, eggplants and purple emperor butterflies. But if you look closely at the visible-light portion of the ...

Based on Walker’s novel we follow Celie (Mariah Lyttle), a young black woman in a rural Georgia community in the early 1900’s. We follow her tragic journey going from the home of an abusive father to ...

Many of us develop strong attachments to particular colors, but purple brings out the most focused and enthusiastic devotion. What makes purple so distinctive? Part of the answer comes from optics.