Credits HLSL’s support and ‘can-do’ attitude during COVID-19 pandemic

Randall Kennedy and Martha Minow sit in conversation.
Harvard Law School Professor Martha Minow and HLS Professor Randall Kennedy, at a recent Book Talk that focused on his book, “Say It Loud! On Race, Law, History, and Culture” (2021). Credit: Harvard Law School Communications

“I was not in the library during the writing of this book…I was able to write the book because of the can-do attitude of the people who run the library here and who make the library go, particularly the reference librarians. I list all their names and I was grateful then, I’m grateful now, and I think people who work in this institution, we should really be aware of just how privileged we are and how grateful we should be.”

Randall Kennedy, HLS Book Talk, Feb. 27, 2024
Say it Loud book by Randall Kennedy.

Harvard Law School Professor Randall Kennedy, the Michael R. Klein Professor of Law, has written a book entitled “Say It Loud! On Race, Law, History, and Culture” (2021) which was the focus of a recent HLS Library Book Talk at which Prof. Kennedy was in conversation with HLS Professor Martha Minow, the 300th Anniversary University Professor, herself an expert in human rights and racial equality, among many other areas of expertise.
 
Kennedy began the hour-long event with praise for the HLS Library staff, whom he thanked – by name – in the Acknowledgement section of Say It Loud!, which he wrote during the COVID-19 pandemic shutdown.

“I was not in the library during the writing of this book…I was able to write the book because of the can-do attitude of the people who run the library here and who make the library go, particularly the reference librarians. I list all their names and I was grateful then, I’m grateful now, and I think people who work in this institution, we should really be aware of just how privileged we are and how grateful we should be.” -Randall Kennedy, HLS Library Book Talk, Feb. 27, 2024

Acknowledgments read, One of the glories of HLS is its cadre of magnificent librarians. I have benefited enormously from their expertise and enthusiasm. Especially helpful have been the reference librarians: Jennifer Allison, Deanna Barmakian, Maya Bergamasco, Catherine Biondo, AJ, Blechner, Mindy Kent, Lisa Lilliot, Anna Martin, Rachel Parker, Michelle Pearse, Steven Wiles, Aslihan Bulut, Claire DeMarco, Meg Kribble, Tim McAllister, Heather Pierce, Louise Ragno, and George Taoultsides. Similarly helpful was the staff at the New York University library.
Acknowledgments from Say It Loud! On Race, Law, History, and Culture by Randall Kennedy, 2021 (pg. 450).

The book is a collection of 29 essays that touch on various topics such as George Floyd; How Black Students Brought the Constitution to Campus; Frederick Douglass: Everyone’s Hero; Charles Hamilton Houston: The Lawyer as Social Engineer; The Civil Rights Act Did Make a Difference; Inequality and the Supreme Court; and much more. The book is available in HOLLIS.

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