I didn't see black as an option in the background color list. I'll check again when I get home from work. <BR><BR>Yes, rtfm indeed. I actually read it, believe it or not.

The new design has a black background instead of the traditional blue, which has been used since the feature's introduction ...

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.

The background color is inspired by International Klein Blue, a hue that the artist Yves Klein first mixed in the 1950s, using it to make an array of monochromatic paintings until his death in 1962.