Discrimination & Civil Rights

Ronald S. Sullivan, Jr., Classical Racialism, Justice Story, and Margaret Morgan’s Journey from Freedom to Slavery: The Story of Prigg v. Pennsylvania, in Race Law…

Randall Kennedy, The Race-Neutral Delusion, London Rev. of Books (Aug. 10, 2023).

Randall Kennedy, The Truth Is, Many Americans Just Don’t Want Black People to Get Ahead, N.Y. Times (June 7, 2023).

Randall L. Kennedy, Foreword, in How Free Speech Saved Democracy: The Untold History of How the First Amendment Became an Essential Tool for Securing Liberty…

Randall L. Kennedy, Foreword, in, Detroit and the New Political Economy of Integration in Public Education (Curtis L. Ivery & Joshua A. Bassett eds., 2022).

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

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

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