Discrimination & Civil Rights

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 Kennedy, Overcoming racism as a black medical student then a working physician, Wash. Post, Sept. 18, 2015.

Randall L. Kennedy, A Black Academic Grapples with His Own Racism, Wash. Post, Aug. 23, 2019 (reviewing Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Anti-Racist…

Randall L. Kennedy, What Harvard was Like for a Black Freshman in 1959, Wash. Post, Mar. 19, 2020 (reviewing Kent Garrett & Jeanne Ellsworth, The…

Randall L. Kennedy, Praising the Life of John Lewis, and Skipping the Complexities, Wash. Post, Aug. 28, 2020 (reviewing Jon Meacham, His Truth is Marching…

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 L. Kennedy, Is It Ever OK to Enunciate a Slur in the Classroom?, Chron. Higher Educ. Oct. 1, 2021.

Randall L. Kennedy, The Right-Wing Attack on Racial Justice Talk, 32 Am. Prospect 1 (Oct. 2021).

Randy E. Barnett, Randall L. Kennedy, Eugene B. Meyer, John O. McGinnis, Nadine Strossen & Kenneth K. Lee, Law, Social Justice, Wokeness and the Protests:…

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

Randall Kennedy, The Ebb and Flow of Racial Progress, Am. Prospect, Dec. 3, 2020.

Randall Kennedy, Politicians in Robes, The Nation, Oct. 19, 2020, at 41 (reviewing Adan Cohen, Supreme Inequality: The Supreme Court’s Fifty-Year Battle for a More…

Randall Kennedy, John Lewis’s Last Journey, Am. Prospect July 27, 2020.

Randall Kennedy, The George Floyd Moment: Promise and Peril, Am. Prospect, June 19, 2020, at 6.

Randall Kennedy, How Racist Are Universities, Really?, Chron. Higher Educ., Sept. 18, 2020, at 20.

Randall L. Kennedy, Say It Loud!: On Race, History, and Culture (Pantheon 2021).

Randall L. Kennedy & Eugene Volokh, Quoting Epithets in the Classroom and Beyond (Aug. 29, 2020).

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 Apparatchik, The Nation, Oct. 29, 2019, at 35 (reviewing Corey Robin, The Enigma of Clarence Thomas (2019)).

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…