Discrimination & Civil Rights

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

Randall L. Kennedy, What Makes Laws Unjust?, in Rethinking Law (Amy Kapczynski ed., 2022).

Randall Kennedy, Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word – with a New Introduction by the Author (2022).

Randall L. Kennedy, How a Dispute Over the N-Word Became a Dispiriting Farce, 65 Chron. Higher Educ., Feb. 8, 2019, at A44.

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, Up in Arms, N.Y. Times, May 30, 2021, at BR15 (reviewing Carol Anderson, THE SECOND Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal…

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, 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.