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Government & Politics
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Kenneth W. Mack & Andre M. Davis, Did Ketanji Brown Jackson rule against Black workers? It’s not so simple., Wash. Post (Feb. 21, 2022).
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What Fannie Lou Hamer Can Teach Today’s Activists
January 25, 2024
Kenneth W. Mack, What Fannie Lou Hamer Can Teach Today’s Activists, Wash. Post., Nov. 19, 2021.
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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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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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Historians in Court: A Roundtable
January 25, 2024
Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Linda Gordon & Kenneth Mack, Historians in Court: A Roundtable, Am. Historian, Nov. 1, 2017.
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The Court, Race and Brown: Precedents to Suit Each Side
January 25, 2024
Kenneth W. Mack, The Court, Race and Brown: Precedents to Suit Each Side, Balt. Sun, July 8, 2007, at 2F.
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Which Side is Brown v. Board On?
January 25, 2024
Kenneth W. Mack, Which Side is Brown v. Board On?, L.A. Times, July 4, 2007, at A21.
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The Supreme Court as a Racially Representative Institution
January 25, 2024
Kenneth W. Mack, The Supreme Court as a Racially Representative Institution, SCOTUS Blog (Feb. 4, 2010).
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A Measure of History
January 25, 2024
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
January 25, 2024
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
January 25, 2024
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
January 25, 2024
Kenneth W. Mack, Five Myths About Two-Term Presidents, Wash. Post, Nov. 11, 2012, at B02.
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Remembering Civil Rights in 1963, Fifty Years On
January 25, 2024
Kenneth W. Mack, Remembering Civil Rights in 1963, Fifty Years On, Huffington Post (Jan. 27, 2013, 2:43 PM).
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It’s Not Obama, It’s Just the Sixth Year
January 25, 2024
Kenneth W. Mack, It’s Not Obama, It’s Just the Sixth Year, TIME (Nov. 7, 2014, 4:18 PM).
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Can History Prepare Us for the Trump Presidency?
January 25, 2024
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’
January 25, 2024
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
January 25, 2024
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
January 25, 2024
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
January 25, 2024
Kenneth W. Mack, The Obama Phenomenon: How Past and Present Resonate (Dec. 19, 2011).
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Law and Local Knowledge in the History of the Civil Rights Movement
January 25, 2024
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…