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Beronda L. Montgomery @berondam.bsky.social · 3h

When my Mama calls I answer, if at all possible. I rejoice in the days that she remembers exactly who I am and also the days that she needs a little reminder. #Grateful

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Beronda L. Montgomery @berondam.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Had an amazing recent event hosted by 44th & 3rd booksellers in ATL that was co-sponsored/co-hosted by @treesatlanta.bsky.social Signed copies of When Trees Testify Science Wisdom History and America's Black Botanical now available through 44th & 3rd: 44thand3rdbookseller.com/search?q=Whe...

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Arkansas Times @arktimes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Little Rock native Beronda L. Montgomery heads to Six Bridges Book Festival later this month. Her latest book, “When Trees Testify,” combines “scientific expertise with memoir and family history to reveal the multifaceted connections of trees and plants to the Black American experience.”

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'When Trees Testify': A Q&A with writer Beronda L. Montgomery ahead of Six Bridges Book Festival - Arkansas Times

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LAL @lindli.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This has made me think again about the beautiful work of Beronda Montgomery, as well as the soil collections at the EJI Museum in Montgomery, AL--one of the most moving museum collections I've ever seen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=njWH...

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EJI's Community Remembrance Project

YouTube video by Equal Justice Initiative

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National Book Critics Circle @bookcritics.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

NBCC member Sullivan Summer interviewed plant biologist Dr. Beronda Montgomery about her book "When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America's Black Botanical Legacy" on the Additions to the Archive podcast: buff.ly/I3kV9Jz

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Beronda L. Montgomery, "When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America’s Black Botanical Legacy" (Henry Holt & Co.) - New Books Network

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Books On Call NYC @booksoncallnyc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

@berondam.bsky.social will be appearing at the 2pm "Nature From The Margins" program and signing books afterwards. Join us there. #BKBF #BrooklynBookFestival #authorsigning

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Beronda L. Montgomery @berondam.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Literally can hardly wait for this conversation!!!

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Adi Magazine @adimagazine.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

We have a new conversation out today on how plant histories can inform our futures: "On Human-Nature Solidarity: A Conversation between Poet Ashia S. Ajani and Botanist Beronda L. Montgomery!" @berondam.bsky.social READ: adimagazine.com/articles/on-...

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On Human-Nature Solidarity: A Conversation between Poet Ashia S. Ajani and Botanist Beronda L. Montgomery - Adi Magazine

In this conversation Ashia S. Ajani (Tending the Vines: Black Abundance in Eight Plants, Timber Press, 2026) and Beronda L. Montgomery (When Trees

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Tom Murphy @tommurphe.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"That plants, including trees, hold the transformed breath of decades of human life in their physical form positions them as powerful vessels of the present, even as they represent and testify to history and those from their past." - Beronda L. Montgomery

Flanked by old, tall trees, the sun rises above St. Thomas' Episcopal Church in Owings Mills, surrounded by the churchyard and old stone wall.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 11/09/2026

25 years ago, terrorists killed nearly 3,000 people, including 2,753 New Yorkers. As we remember that terrible day, let us also remember the first responders, office workers and strangers who ran toward danger to help each other.

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Beronda L. Montgomery @berondam.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

So enjoying this convo on academic freedom with THE Dr. Angela Davis [moderated by Prof. @ShantiParikh.bsky.social] as a part of @wustl.bsky.social's Sawyer Seminar Series on Black Studies and the Future of the American University sponsored by @WUSTL_AFAS.bsky.social & the Center for the Humanities

Two women seated on stage: left, moderator Prof. Shanti Parikh, and right, Dr. Angela Y. Davis

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Beronda L. Montgomery @berondam.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"To understand Black women is to understand America" --@sasha-bonet.bsky.social from powerful convo for Virtual Toni Morrison Panel with @blklibrarygirl.bsky.social, Danzy Senny, Julia Alvarez, Sasha Bonet @imaniperry.bsky.social for @literarycleveland.bsky.social's Inkubator Writing Conference

Sux women in convo (top to bottom, Left to right): Julia Alvarez, Sasha Bonet, Honoree Fannone Jeffers, Imani Perry, Danzy Senna, and moderator Michelle Smith)

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Beronda L. Montgomery @berondam.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

To finish Kin a couple of days ago & be still in a daze at the brilliant writing & ending..only to run into @tayari.bsky.social in the authors' lounge at #NationalBookFest & she gives me the southern hug of comfort when I tell her I'm in "Kin recovery." She's a gifted writer & amazing generous soul!

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Marianne Denton @mariannedenton.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

You don’t have to be a Washoe County resident to register for @berondam.bsky.social’s Author Talk. Just register below for the event 💚 Because libraries are a gift the community gives itself and all our communities need more libraries time.

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Prof Kori coined “know your place “aggression . Read this.

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Beronda L. Montgomery @berondam.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

How did the trees catch a stray in this?! I CANNOT!

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Beronda L. Montgomery @berondam.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I contributed to @science.org's "American Science at 250": I shared that "In 1776, I would not have been a tenured professor at any university in the US...At that time, I would have endured the same fate as my ancestors: I would have been someone’s property." Link: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Screenshot with text that reads: "In 1776, I would not have been a tenured professor at any university in the US. As a Black woman, a formal education would have been beyond my reach legally. At that time, I would have endured the same fate as my ancestors: I would have been someone’s property. Despite a lack of recognition of their full humanity, African Americans of this era were accomplished scientists and agriculturalists. (Carver, for example, was born enslaved—a fact many fail to recall.)"

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Beronda L. Montgomery @berondam.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

What a time I had in conversation with @theferocity.bsky.social for Vibe Check. We discussed When Trees Testify (@henryholtbooks.bsky.social) & so much more in this "The Trees Saw Everything" episode. Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/2WbU... #WhenTreesTestify

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The Trees Saw Everything

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Daniel Cavicchi @danielcavicchi.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Just finished When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America’s Black Botanical Legacy, by @berondam.bsky.social. Such a powerful book. The trees remember.

Cover of When Trees Testify, with title and author information on black background, surrounded at the edges by green vegetation: diverse tree leaves, cotton boles, and an apple.

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Beronda L. Montgomery @berondam.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Check out new Memoir Nation episode in which I discuss memoir writing & When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, & America's Black Botanical Legacy w/co-hosts & Memoir Nation’s cofounders, Grant Faulkner & Brooke Warner. Enjoyed discussing the book & craft of writing. youtu.be/XF-gpAahaNM?...

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Beronda Montgomery on Memoir as Testimony

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Living on Earth @livingonearthradio.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Happy Juneteenth from Living on Earth! 🎊 Celebrate by tuning in to our conversation with Beronda Montgomery, author of “When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, And America’s Black Botanical Legacy.” @berondam.bsky.social www.loe.org/shows/segmen...

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Living on Earth: <i>When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History and America's Black Botanical Legacy</i>

When plant biologist Beronda Montgomery sat down to write what became a personal memoir mixed with a botanical history of African Americans, she found her research as a PhD lab scientist had brought h...

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Beronda L. Montgomery @berondam.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

I miss him so much every day....but especially today Happy Father's Day to all the amazing fathers out there

Infant Beronda held in the arms of her seated father

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Beronda L. Montgomery @berondam.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Happiest of birthdays to you 🎈🥳🎈🥳

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ramira 𓇢𓆸 @withmicrobes.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Excited to read @berondam.bsky.social’s “When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America’s Black Botanical Legacy” this summer <3 My wife’s also diving into “Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice” from @thellpsx.bsky.social! 10/10 read from last year’s radical anti-zionist book club 🌼

A photo of my newest book purchase, When Trees Testify, in the foreground atop a round coffee table. My partner’s book pick, Care Work, is in the background.

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Beronda L. Montgomery @berondam.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I must have looked entirely too excited to find a pack of these gummy bears in the snack basket as a flight attendant gave me a "to go care package" of them to keep me "smiling all day". 😂😂😂 I have no shame and my inner 5-year-old self will happily pull them out later for a late night hotel snack ❤️!

Several packs of True to Fruit gummy bears in a plastic ziplock bag

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Beronda L. Montgomery @berondam.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

A friend sent this photo from @copperfieldsnapa.bsky.social where she purchased a(nother) copy of my When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America's Black Botanical Legacy. I'm in good company with friend @chanda.blacksky.app's The Edge of Space-Time, Robert Moor & Terry Tempest Williams

Books on the shelf in a bookstore with When Trees Testify by Beronda L Montgomery in the center

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@makeradicalcare @radical-care.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

I LOVE TREES SO MUCH ❤️ I used to paint pictures of them every day… Also reading a great book about them rn by @berondam.bsky.social recommend!

When Trees Testify:
Science, Wisdom, History, and America's Black Botanical Legacy
BERONDA L. MONTGOMERY

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Beronda L. Montgomery @berondam.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Let me tell you, the "Growing Together: Black History Through Family, Food & Foliage" convo w/Ashanté M. Reese & mod Deborah Rogers for #PGHBookFest & amazing interactions w/readers fed my soul yesterday. I sometimes leave events exhausted but I leave PGH energized & ready for my writing week ahead!

Three Black women -Beronda L Montgomery (left), Deborah Rogers (center), and Ashante M Reese (right) standing outside

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 29/05/2026

NEW: A lot of bad has happened to American science over the last year but nothing comes even close to what’s about to happen if we don’t speak out in opposition to the OMB rule changes and I hope @aaas-socsci.bsky.social @apsphysics.bsky.social and others will launch public campaigns about this. 🧪🔭⚛️

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It's the End of American Science As We Know It

We have 45 days to express our opposition to catastrophic changes.

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Beronda L. Montgomery @berondam.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Excited for "Growing Together: Black History Through Family, Food & Foliage" #PGHBookFest2026 w/Ashante M Reese, "Gather: Black Food, Nourishment & the Art of Togetherness" (Norton, 2026) & "When Trees Testify" (@henryholtbooks.bsky.social, 2026) w/signing @Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh 4 - 5 PM

Flyer with images of Ashante M. Reese (center) and Beronda Montgomery (right) with text that reads:

Panel discussion
Growing Together: Black History Through Family, Food, and...

Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh -Mai (Oakland)
Pittsburgh, PA, United States

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Makayla Drew @makaylathebotanist.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Inspired heavily by work by Dr. Beronda Montgomery @berondam.bsky.social, we proposed a framework of solutions for scientists that struggle with scientific identity development that is based on mechanisms that plant cells use to promote the establishment of proper cell identities.

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Beronda L. Montgomery @berondam.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

If "Happiness is a cup of coffee and a good book," happy "When Trees Testify" (@henryholtbooks.bsky.social) at @greenapplebooks.bsky.social at SFO airport. In good company with @chanda.blacksky.app's "The Disordered Cosmos' & @restingdinoface.bsky.social's "When the Earth was Green" also on shelves.

Painted sign that reads "Happiness is a cup of coffee & a good book"

Books on shelf with the book "When Trees Testify Science Wisdom History and America's Black Botanical Legacy" by Beronda L Montgomery

Books on shelf with the book "The Disordered Cosmos" by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

Books on shelf with 3 copies of the book "When the Earth was Green" by Riley Black to the left

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Beronda L. Montgomery @berondam.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Quick pop in to Association for Behavior Analysis International Annual convention to present "Lessons from Plants: Pivoting from Gatekeeping to Groundskeeping in Cultivating Inclusive Communities" Also signing copies of When Trees Testify (@henryholtbooks.bsky.social & @macmillanusa.bsky.social)

Flyer with picture of Beronda Montgomery (left) with text that reads:

ABAI

Association for Behavior Analysis International

Lessons from Plants: Pivoting from Gatekeeping to Groundskeeping in Cultivating Inclusive Communities

WITH
BERONDA MONTGOMERY
(Grinnell College)

52nd CONVENTION

May 21-25
2026 San Francisco

Conference Name tag on table with invited presenter ribbon

Stack of book When Trees Testify (left) with one copy standing (right)

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2026 ANNUAL CONVENTION

AUTHOR SIGNING

Monday, May 25

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

CONVENTION BOOKSTORE

Dr. Beronda Montgomery
When Trees Testify

Dr. Peter F. Gerhardt
Make it Meaningful: Creating Programs that Matter into Adulthood for Learners with Autism Spectrum and Related Disorders

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Beronda L. Montgomery @berondam.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Started morning with field trip to the Bad Goose Farm + Nursery (badgoosefarm.com/the-bad-geese) where founders Zeke Goodband & Ali Wilder showed us around the nursery & orchards. Had the great privilege of seeing grafted clones of the historic Radcliffe apple tree found @rad-institute.bsky.social.

Cloned apple sapling derived from historic apple tree at Harvard Radcliffe Institute yard

Overhead screen with projected picture of live oak tree; Below,wood table with stacks of book When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America's Black Botanical Legacy by Beronda L Montgomery

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Isaac G. Bryan @ib2real.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Thousands are marching in Selma calling for a full restoration of the voting rights act.

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Beronda L. Montgomery @berondam.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

What a wonderfully rich convo about @esglaude.bsky.social's forthcoming book "America, U.S.A.: How Race Shadows the Nation's Anniversary" & truths about America that are important to interrogate with @imaniperry.bsky.social. Critical to understand the double consciousness & divided soul of America.

Eddie Glaude in front of bookshelf (upper) and Imani Perry (lower)

Cover of Eddie Glaude's book "America, U.S.A.: How Race Shadows the Nation's Anniversary'

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Beronda L. Montgomery @berondam.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

"There is value in banding with the poets & fighting for the value of being curious & trying to articulate the world with whatever tools are available to us. Not for the purposes of selling something, but for the purpose of fulfilling our humanity." Powerful words from brilliant @chanda.blacksky.app

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Beronda L. Montgomery @berondam.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Love seeing @chanda.blacksky.app's Edge of Space-Time on the What We’re Reading: May ‘26 list from @libro.fm! ❤️❤️❤️ librofm.substack.com/p/may26diges...

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What We’re Reading: May ‘26

Another month, another roundup of the hottest audiobooks, as recommended by our bookselling partners.

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