Civil Rights

Randall L. Kennedy, Protesting Too Much: The Trouble with Black Power Revisionism, 40 Boston Rev. 38 (2015).

Randall L. Kennedy, Introduction in, Matthew J. Perry: The Man, His Times, and His Legacy (William Lewis Burke & Belinda Gergel eds., 2004).

Randall L. Kennedy, Brown as Senior Citizen, 1 Am. J. L. & Equal. 238 (2021).

Randall Kennedy, Has America created a misleading fable about the civil rights movement?, Wash. Post, Feb. 2, 2018. (reviewing Jeanne Theoharis, A More Beautiful and…

Randall L. Kennedy, More Foe Than Friend: The Supreme Court and the Pursuit of Racial Equality, The Nation, Aug. 23, 2021, at 32 (reviewing Orville…

Randall Kennedy & Eugene Volokh, The New Taboo: Quoting Epithets in the Classroom and Beyond, 49 Cap. U. L. Rev. 1 (2021).

Randall Kennedy, The Courage to Defy Brutality, 30 Am. Prospect, Spring 2019, at 74 (reviewing Richard Gergel, Unexampled Courage: The Blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard…

Randall Kennedy, The Journalist and the Murderers, N.Y. Times, Mar. 8, 2020, at BR14 (reviewing Jerry Mitchell, Race Against Time, A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved…

Randall L. Kennedy, Reconsidering Palmer v. Thompson, 2018 Sup. Ct. Rev. 179 (2018).

Randall Kennedy, Derrick Bell and Me (Mar. 8, 2019).

Randall Kennedy, Walker v. City of Birmingham Revisited, 2017 Sup. Ct. Rev. 313.

Randall Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr.: The Prophet as Healer, Am. Prospect, Apr. 3, 2018, at 1.

Randall Kennedy, State-Enforced Segregation and the Color of Justice, Am. Prospect, July 24, 2017, at 1 (reviewing Richard Rothstein, The Color of Law: The Forgotten…

Randall Kennedy, The Forgotten Origins of the Constitution on Campus, Am. Prospect, Dec. 28, 2017, at 1.

Randall L. Kennedy, For Discrimination: Race, Affirmative Action, and the Law (Vintage 2013).

Randall L. Kennedy, The Civil Rights Act’s Unsung Victory, Harper’s Mag., Jun. 2014.

Randall L. Kennedy, Black America’s Promised Land: Why I Am Still a Racial Optimist, Am. Prospect, Nov. 10, 2014.

Randall L. Kennedy, A Caricature of Black Reality, Am. Prospect, Nov. 19, 2015 (reviewing Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me (2015)).

Randall L. Kennedy, The Media Jabs Are Unfair, Kagan Will Fight for Equality on the Court, Huffington Post, May 12, 2010.

Randall L. Kennedy, A Reply to Philip Elman, 100 Harv. L. Rev. 1938 (1987).

Randall L. Kennedy, Review of Howard Smead, Blood Justice: The Lynching of Charles Mack Parker (1986), 4 Harv. BlackLetter J. 70 (1987).