I didn't do TOO much this year, but I still did it. Love keeping my mother's tradition of lamb and ham on Easter alive. Not to mention the tradition of deviled eggs! Miss her and love keeping her spirit alive through my food. #blairiscooking
Check out the latest NYT op-ed @marthasjones.bsky.social (NHC Fellow, 2013–14) and historian Kate Masur cowrote this week discussing the historical context involved in Trump v. Barbara SCOTUS case.
Excited to share that you can preorder Black Freedom at @barnesandnoble for 25% off when you sign up for their free rewards program and use code PREORDER25 at checkout! The offer ends on 3/26.
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#tdih 1970: 1st mass work stoppage in 195-year history of U.S. Postal Service began with letter carriers’ walkout in Brooklyn & Manhattan for better wages. Spread nationally.
Read @profblmkelley.bsky.social’s ”Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class” ⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/po...
Not ready to emerge into the “daylight” yet? Check out my super-sized 266th #ScholarSunday thread, chock-full o’ public scholarly writing, podcasts, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ +
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This past fall, @kathleenduval.bsky.social (NHC Fellow, 2008–09; 2025–26) sat down with NHC President and Director @profblmkelley.bsky.social to discuss DuVal’s 2024 book, "Native Nations: A Millennium in North America."
Listen to their conversation now:
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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
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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