Discrimination & Civil Rights

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

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

Randall Kennedy, The Confounding Truth About Frederick Douglass, Atlantic, Dec. 1, 2018, at 36 (reviewing David W. Blight, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom (2018)).

Randall Kennedy, Saying It Louder, N.Y. Times, July 22, 2018, SR at 1.

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

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

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 Kennedy, Despair is Not an Option, Am. Prospect, Sept. 20, 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, Old Poison, New Battles, Harper’s Mag., Aug. 2015.

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, Lifting As We Climb: A progressive defense of respectability politics, Harper’s Mag., Oct. 2015.

Randall L. Kennedy, Judge J. Skelly Wright and the Racial Desegregation of Louisiana, 61 Loy. L. Rev. 57 (2015).

Randall L. Kennedy, Introduction, in Blacks at Harvard: A Documentary History of African-American Experience At Harvard and Radcliffe (Werner Sollors, Caldwell Titcomb, Thomas A. Underwood…

Randall L. Kennedy, Why Obama’s Black Critics are Wrong, CNN.com, Sept. 19, 2011.

Randall Kennedy, One Step Forward, Two Steps Back, Los Angeles Times, Sept. 3, 2000, Book Review, at 8 (reviewing John H. McWhorter, Losing the Race…

Randall L. Kennedy, The Word ‘Minority’ Isn’t Pejorative, Boston Globe, Jan. 8, 2002.

Randall L. Kennedy, A Hard Lesson on Language, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Jan. 19, 2003 at B3.