Can Twitter and Tenure Co-Exist? A Conversation with Blair LM Kelley

On Left of Black on The Root , Historian Blair LM Kelley (@profblmkelley) talks with host Mark Anthony Neal about the challenges of getting tenure in the academy and being an engaged public scholar, particularly on social media. Professor Kelley is the author of Right to Ride: Streetcar Boycotts and African American Citizenship in the Era of Plessy v. Ferguson and Associate Professor of History at North Carolina State University. She host the podcast Historical Blackness .