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Kenneth W. Mack & Andre M. Davis, Did Ketanji Brown Jackson rule against Black workers? It’s not so simple., Wash. Post (Feb. 21, 2022).
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What Fannie Lou Hamer Can Teach Today’s Activists
August 19, 2026
Kenneth W. Mack, What Fannie Lou Hamer Can Teach Today’s Activists, Wash. Post., Nov. 19, 2021.
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Running deeper than race: America’s caste system: Isabel Wilkerson explores what she calls an even more intractable hierarchy
August 19, 2026
Kenneth W. Mack, Running Deeper than Race: America’s Caste System, Wash. Post, July 31, 2020, (reviewing Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origin of our Discontents (2020)).
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Kenneth W. Mack & Guy-Uriel E. Charles, Introduction: The New Black and the Death of the Civil Rights Idea, in The New Black
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Kenneth W. Mack, James Baldwin Spoke Eloquently to His Era. Does He Also Speak to Ours?, Wash. Post, July 19, 2020, (reviewing Eddie S. Glaude…
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The Court, Race and Brown: Precedents to Suit Each Side
August 19, 2026
Kenneth W. Mack, The Court, Race and Brown: Precedents to Suit Each Side, Balt. Sun, July 8, 2007, at 2F.
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The Supreme Court as a Racially Representative Institution
August 19, 2026
Kenneth W. Mack, The Supreme Court as a Racially Representative Institution, SCOTUS Blog (Feb. 4, 2010).
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Which Side is Brown v. Board On?
August 19, 2026
Kenneth W. Mack, Which Side is Brown v. Board On?, L.A. Times, July 4, 2007, at A21.
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The Roots of Clarence Thomas’ Black Burden
August 19, 2026
Kenneth W. Mack, The Roots of Clarence Thomas’ Black Burden, The Root (Apr. 6, 2012, 12:55 AM).
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Health Care Ruling: Not a Liberal Victory
August 19, 2026
Kenneth Mack, Health Care Ruling: Not a Liberal Victory, The Root (July 7, 2012, 12:53 AM).
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It’s Not Obama, It’s Just the Sixth Year
August 19, 2026
Kenneth W. Mack, It’s Not Obama, It’s Just the Sixth Year, TIME (Nov. 7, 2014, 4:18 PM).
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Remembering Civil Rights in 1963, Fifty Years On
August 19, 2026
Kenneth W. Mack, Remembering Civil Rights in 1963, Fifty Years On, Huffington Post (Jan. 27, 2013, 2:43 PM).
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Commentary: Constraint and Freedom in the ‘Age of Obama’
August 19, 2026
Kenneth Mack, Commentary: Constraint and Freedom in the ‘Age of Obama,’ in The Obamas and a (Post) Racial America? 27 (Gregory S. Parks & Matthew…
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Holder, Eric
August 19, 2026
Kenneth Mack, Holder, Eric, in African American National Biography (Henry Louis Gates, Jr. & Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham eds., 2d ed. 2013).
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Kenneth W. Mack, A Black Writer on Individualism, Identity and Indifference in Trump’s America, Wash. Post, Dec. 22, 2019, at B11 (reviewing Clifford Thompson, What…
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Kenneth W. Mack, A Defense of Black Lives Matter from the Activist in the Blue Vest, Wash Post, Nov. 2, 2018, at B07 (reviewing DeRay…
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The Contradictory Conservatism of Clarence Thomas
August 19, 2026
Kenneth W. Mack, The Contradictory Conservatism of Clarence Thomas, Wash. Post (Sept. 26, 2019, 10:07 PM)(reviewing Corey Robin, The Enigma of Clarence Thomas (2019)).
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Pauli Murray: Eleanor Roosevelt’s Beloved Radical
August 19, 2026
Kenneth W. Mack, Pauli Murray: Eleanor Roosevelt’s Beloved Radical, Boston Rev., Feb. 29, 2016 (reviewing Patricia Bell-Scott, The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of…
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A Case of Police Brutality That Helped Change Race Relations
August 19, 2026
Kenneth W. Mack, A Case of Police Brutality That Helped Change Race Relations, Wash. Post, Feb. 3, 2019, at B06 (reviewing Richard Gergel, The Blinding…
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Second Mode Inclusion Claims in the Law Schools
August 19, 2026
Kenneth W. Mack, Second Mode Inclusion Claims in the Law Schools, 87 Fordham L. Rev. 1005 (2018).
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Kenneth W. Mack, Dissent and Authenticity in the History of American Racial Politics, in Dissenting Voices in American Society: The Role of Judges, Lawyers and…