Black History Month Featured Lecture: Blair LM Kelley, Ph.D. – “Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class”

Blair LM Kelley, Ph.D. is an award-winning author, historian, and scholar of the African American experience. A dedicated public historian, Kelley works to amplify the histories of Black people, chronicling the everyday impact of their activism. Kelley is currently the Joel R. Williamson Distinguished Professor of Southern Studies at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and the director of the Center for the Study of the American South, the first Black woman to serve in that role in the center’s thirty-year history.

Co-sponsored by: Department of History and Anthropology, African Diaspora Studies, Black and African Diaspora Forum United (BADFU), Program in Gender and Intersectionality Studies, and the Intercultural Center