writer/historian/president @natlhumanities
Liberated, We Ain't Got Time
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Publication day! Black Freedom: A Visual History of Juneteenth and Emancipation Days is out today. I’m so excited to share this beautiful book honoring generations of Black celebration, memory, joy, resistance, and freedom-making. Purchase for your favorite book seller today!
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Blair LM Kelley presents BLACK FREEDOM, with Mark Anthony Neal
Tue, June 16, 2026
5:30pm - 7:00pm
@FlyleafBooks
752 MLK Jr. Blvd.
Chapel Hill, NC 27514
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The National Humanities Center is pleased to announce historian Dr. Blair LM Kelley (@profblmkelley) has been selected as its next president and director. Read the announcement on our website: bit.ly/4kYd4mF
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In conversation with Regina N. Bradley, @profblmkelley explores Black joy, the interior lives of working-class Black people, quiet protest and resistance, and the influence of working-class Black women on Black activism.
New at PB: buff.ly/4iFyeVX
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Get the "Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class" audiobook for 50% off, now through 11/05. @profblmkelley audiobooks.com/promotions/pr…
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Love this!!! A must see!
What Is a Black Dandy? | Superfine: Tailoring Black Style | @metmuseum
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Buy the "Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class" audiobook today and save 60%! Offer ends 10/28. @profblmkelley audiobooks.com/promotions/pr…
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Helene fact check: Here are the rumors and the reality in Western North Carolina
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Congratulations to this year's @macfound MacArthur Fellows, who include several authors with ties to Duke University Press, including Jennifer L. Morgan and Ruha Benjamin @ruha9. You can read some of their work for free!
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ALT Photo of Jennifer Morgan, a brown-skinned woman with curly grey hair, pulled back, large blue glasses, and small hoop earings. She is wearing a brown collared jacket.
ALT Photo of Ruha Benjamin, a brown-skinned woman with prominent eyebrows. Her dreadlocks are pulled back in a braid that cascades along the side of her head. She is smiling and wears small gold hoop earrings and a colorful shirt.
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Meet @DukeAlumni Jennifer L. Morgan, a 2024 #MacFellow uncovering the unique experiences of enslaved African women, showing how exploitation of their reproductive potential was central to the institutionalization of race-based slavery in early America
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So excited to share the stage with my brilliant fellow award winner Keveh Akbar this afternoon to talk about our books! Join us at the Brooklyn Book Festival this afternoon at 3!
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Ya’ girl won the Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize for nonfiction for Black Folk!!!
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NC voters, confirm that you are still registered to vote! 750k names removed from NC voter rolls. Here are the facts.
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