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    Talking Black Joy and Black Freedom with Blair LM Kelley

    “The world didn’t give It, but the world can’t take It away.”
    by Regina Bradley, Blair LM Kelley via Public Books on December 16, 2024
  • Black worker holding a bundle of metal rods.

    'Working Class' Does Not Equal 'White'

    What it means to be a Black worker in the time since slavery.
    by Ibram X. Kendi, Blair LM Kelley via The Atlantic on August 7, 2023
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Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class
Blair LM Kelley
2023
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A Black female welder circa 1930s-1940s.

A Sweeping History of the Black Working Class

By focusing on the Black working class and its long history, Blair LM Kelley’s book, "Black Folk," helps tell the larger story of American democracy.
by Robert Greene II via The Nation on June 12, 2024
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Class, Race, and the Formation of Urban Black Communities

A review of three new studies about how race and class intersect.
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Samuel L. Burton’s Remarkable Comeback Story

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The Power of Black Lives Matter

How the movement that’s changing America was built and where it goes next.
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