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Government & Politics
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Kenneth W. Mack, Corporations That Back Voting Rights Will Find It’s Good for Business, Too, Wash. Post, Apr. 20, 2021.
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What Fannie Lou Hamer Can Teach Today’s Activists
August 19, 2026
Kenneth W. Mack, What Fannie Lou Hamer Can Teach Today’s Activists, Wash. Post., Nov. 19, 2021.
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Kenneth W. Mack, James Baldwin Spoke Eloquently to His Era. Does He Also Speak to Ours?, Wash. Post, July 19, 2020, (reviewing Eddie S. Glaude…
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The Court, Race and Brown: Precedents to Suit Each Side
August 19, 2026
Kenneth W. Mack, The Court, Race and Brown: Precedents to Suit Each Side, Balt. Sun, July 8, 2007, at 2F.
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The Supreme Court as a Racially Representative Institution
August 19, 2026
Kenneth W. Mack, The Supreme Court as a Racially Representative Institution, SCOTUS Blog (Feb. 4, 2010).
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Which Side is Brown v. Board On?
August 19, 2026
Kenneth W. Mack, Which Side is Brown v. Board On?, L.A. Times, July 4, 2007, at A21.
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A Measure of History
August 19, 2026
Kenneth W. Mack, Opinion, A Measure of History (on the Passage of the Affordable Care Act), Bos. Globe, Mar. 25, 2010, at 13.
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The Roots of Clarence Thomas’ Black Burden
August 19, 2026
Kenneth W. Mack, The Roots of Clarence Thomas’ Black Burden, The Root (Apr. 6, 2012, 12:55 AM).
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Health Care Ruling: Not a Liberal Victory
August 19, 2026
Kenneth Mack, Health Care Ruling: Not a Liberal Victory, The Root (July 7, 2012, 12:53 AM).
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Five Myths About Two-Term Presidents
August 19, 2026
Kenneth W. Mack, Five Myths About Two-Term Presidents, Wash. Post, Nov. 11, 2012, at B02.
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It’s Not Obama, It’s Just the Sixth Year
August 19, 2026
Kenneth W. Mack, It’s Not Obama, It’s Just the Sixth Year, TIME (Nov. 7, 2014, 4:18 PM).
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Remembering Civil Rights in 1963, Fifty Years On
August 19, 2026
Kenneth W. Mack, Remembering Civil Rights in 1963, Fifty Years On, Huffington Post (Jan. 27, 2013, 2:43 PM).
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Can History Prepare Us for the Trump Presidency?
August 19, 2026
Kenneth W. Mack, Can History Prepare Us for the Trump Presidency?, Politico (Jan. 22, 2017) (essays by twenty-one historians).
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Commentary: Constraint and Freedom in the ‘Age of Obama’
August 19, 2026
Kenneth Mack, Commentary: Constraint and Freedom in the ‘Age of Obama,’ in The Obamas and a (Post) Racial America? 27 (Gregory S. Parks & Matthew…
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Kenneth W. Mack, A Black Writer on Individualism, Identity and Indifference in Trump’s America, Wash. Post, Dec. 22, 2019, at B11 (reviewing Clifford Thompson, What…
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The Contradictory Conservatism of Clarence Thomas
August 19, 2026
Kenneth W. Mack, The Contradictory Conservatism of Clarence Thomas, Wash. Post (Sept. 26, 2019, 10:07 PM)(reviewing Corey Robin, The Enigma of Clarence Thomas (2019)).
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Pauli Murray: Eleanor Roosevelt’s Beloved Radical
August 19, 2026
Kenneth W. Mack, Pauli Murray: Eleanor Roosevelt’s Beloved Radical, Boston Rev., Feb. 29, 2016 (reviewing Patricia Bell-Scott, The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of…
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The Obama Phenomenon: How Past and Present Resonate
August 19, 2026
Kenneth W. Mack, The Obama Phenomenon: How Past and Present Resonate (Dec. 19, 2011).
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Civil Disobedience, State Action, and Lawmaking Outside the Courts: Robert Bell’s Encounter with American Law
August 19, 2026
Kenneth W. Mack, Civil Disobedience, State Action, and Lawmaking Outside the Courts: Robert Bell’s Encounter with American Law, 39 J. Sup. Ct. Hist. 347 (2014).
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Kenneth W. Mack, Law and Mass Politics in the Making of the Civil Rights Lawyer, 1931-1942, 93 J. Am. Hist. 37 (2006).
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Kenneth W. Mack, Law and Local Knowledge in the History of the Civil Rights Movement, 125 Harv. L. Rev. 1018 (2012) (reviewing Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Courage…