/writer/historian/ph.d./award-winning author of Black Folk/president @natlhumanities /breast cancer survivor/The Oracle
Blair LM Kelley, Ph.D.
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Black Freedom in Banff! Such a thrill to be a part of the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes convening this year, what a wonderful place to celebrate my publication date! June 2!!!
Glowing from my Black Freedom event at Kindred Stories in Houston. What a joy to talk Juneteenth, Emancipation Days, memory and struggle in Texas!
Black Freedom chronicles the celebration of freedom that began well before the national holiday. Available everywhere books are sold!
Today SCOTUS allowing Alabama to press ahead with the use of a map that erases a majority Black congressional district makes clear clear that this Court has unashamedly set its course to dismantle the 14th Amendment brick-by-brick. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
Awesome!!!! Thank you for buying it!
Headed to Houston for an event at Kindred Books! Join us if you can!!!
It's pub day! No better way to resist the erasure of Black history then to buy Black books! Available anywhere books are sold!
Wow. The generation most exposed to the changes of AI has questions... we ought to be listening.
Graduates Boo Commencement Speech About A.I. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/s...
A great day in Montgomery, AL as thousands gathered under the theme “All Roads Lead to the South” - a rally to mobilize awareness & action in opposition to southern states racial gerrymandering to dismantle majority Black congressional districts after the SCOTUS decision in Louisiana v Calláis.
“.. The U.S. is now spending more on data center construction than on public transportation infrastructure, according to new Census Bureau figures out today.”
@bloomberg.com
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I miss some of the corporations being here so that I could do things like tag United Airlines in this photo I took on the plane from SFO to Newark this morning!
I don’t think this is supposed to happen!
YAY! With just a half hour to spare, the UPS driver delivered my pre-order of BLACK FREEDOM by @profblmkelley.bsky.social and it looks, and *feels*, beautiful.
Enclosure says it has an on sale date of June 2nd at your favorite independent bookshop. đź“š
