Discrimination & Civil Rights

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.

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 Journalist and the Murderers, N.Y. Times, Mar. 8, 2020, at BR14 (reviewing Jerry Mitchell, Race Against Time, A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved…

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

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, 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, Despair is Not an Option, Am. Prospect, Sept. 20, 2017, at 1.

Randall Kennedy, The Forgotten Origins of the Constitution on Campus, Am. Prospect, Dec. 28, 2017, at 1.

Randall L. Kennedy, For Discrimination: Race, Affirmative Action, and the Law (Vintage 2013).

Randall L. Kennedy, Black America’s Promised Land: Why I Am Still a Racial Optimist, Am. Prospect, Nov. 10, 2014.