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The cover of Black Freedom!
The back cover!
An image of an emancipation day celebration!
Flower covered wagons from Juneteenth celebrations!
Thrilled to have an advance copy of Black Freedom in my hands! It was a pleasure to tell the stories of emancipation. It will be out June 2nd but available for preorder now!Preorders remind publishers that our history matters, even in this age of repression! www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/blair...
This Black History Month preorder Black books, a concrete way to resist erasure and tell publishing&booksellers we still value this work. #BHM
My book Black Freedom is available for pre-order:
www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/blair-lm-kelley-2/black-freedom/9780762486939/?lens=black-dog-leventhal
Just in case you missed this amazing conversation I had with Kellie Carter Jackson about the intersection of family history and our historical work!
reunion-a-podcast-about-family-histories.ghost.io/episode-003-...
Slide commemorating the 15th amendment
My ancestor Henry registering to vote in 1867!
The cover of my book Black Folk!
Finding my 3-times great grandfather, Henry Rucker, registering to vote in 1867 was life changing. He did so at great risk to life and livelihood, but he did it anyway.
Honored to commemorate the day that those rights were Constitutionally enshrined, still sacred & paid for at great sacrifice.
They each have a piece of the original counter. It was evidently very long.
A historic photo of the Greensboro 4.
Feb. 1, 1960, 4 NC A&T students sat-in at the “whites only” counter at Woolworths in Greensboro. Their defiance ignited a movement led to the birth of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
Young people fuel movements. It is inspiring to see that today they still do.
#BlackHistoryMonth
Thrilled to be your speaker for this year!
Just in case you missed this article about the erosion of the 14th and 15th Amendments during the holiday. Important reporting by @adamserwer.bsky.social
Always!
I'm not anti-technology. I realize it's impossible to stop the things that have already happened. But I am also an advocate for thinking about environmental costs. Exploitation of labor abroad. The degradation of American education. Jobs. We deserve a real conversation about the costs.
I'm so sorry, keep speaking, keep fighting. I'm deeply convinced that most people who aren't directly affected are deeply unaware. We spent decades talking about the environment only to turn around and wreck unprecedented havoc.
We are fighting data centers in our little town and the big wigs just keep going around us. They tried to pass it under the table but people found out and turned out. We got it voted down. Then they took it to court saying we weren't allowed to speak. Now republican courts are undermining us. *sob*
The question people ask me most in my current position is about AI. People passionately opposed to AI, people who believe it is the answer to all our problems, people who wonder what it will mean for the humanities. However most people change the subject when I mention the people bearing AI's costs.
Ajamu A. Dillahunt-Holloway’s review of Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class ( @wwnorton.com ) by Blair LM Kelley ( @profblmkelley.bsky.social )
AI is just scraping what already exists while historians are putting the materials of the past together in new and unexpected ways. Drawing on the insights, teaching, and ways of knowing that are intangible. No comparison.
Breaking: The University of Virginia's Board of Visitors named a new president Friday: Scott Beardsley, dean of UVA's Darden School of Business since 2015.
Beardsley called the selection "the honor of my life."
Yup, my cat Shorty and I were always ducking for cover together in my grad school apartment.
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Thankful to have the strength to make this wonderful meal this year. #Blairiscooking
Another chocolate cake!
This one is for my son, his fave triple chocolate, chocolate cake, extra chocolate icing. Candied yams up next... #Blairiscooking
Homemade chocolate cake!
First cake is for a family friend. Yellow cake/chocolate icing. Getting dropped off soon! #blairiscooking
It's happening... #Blairiscooking
Dr. @profblmkelley.bsky.social speaks to this in her book: uncpress.org/978080787101...
We are honored and thrilled to welcome Dr. Vinson to the Center this year.
What an amazing and powerful conversation we had @natlhumanities Monday! Building the groundwork!
Congratulations to Signe Cohen (NHC Fellow, 2025–26) for receiving this honor!
Always a pleasure to speak to Leoneda Inge and the Due South team about Black history!