Person

Randall Kennedy

Bylines

‘Brown’ at 70

The rhetorically modest but functionally powerful ruling that ended segregation shouldn’t be misused to forestall other efforts at racial equality.

by Randall Kennedy via The American Prospect on May 17, 2024
What Makes Laws Unjust

King could not accomplish what philosophers and theologians also failed to—distinguishing moral from immoral law in a polarized society.

by Randall Kennedy via Boston Review on April 11, 2022
Whose Side Is the Supreme Court On?

The Supreme Court and the pursuit of racial equality.

by Randall Kennedy via The Nation on August 9, 2021
Racist Litter

A review of Eric Foner's The Second Founding.

by Randall Kennedy via London Review of Books on July 30, 2020

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Clara Newton at her home outside Baltimore, holding a picture of her son Odell, who has been in prison for 41 years for a crime he committed when he was 16. State officials have recommended Odell for release three times since 1992, but he has not been freed. August 4, 2015.

The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration

Politicians are suddenly eager to disown failed policies on American prisons, but they have failed to reckon with the history.

by Ta-Nehisi Coates via The Atlantic on September 15, 2015

Martin Luther King Jr. with other activists and children.

Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Perilous Power of Respectability

We revere the man and revile the strategy, but King knew what he was doing.

by Kelefa Sanneh via The New Yorker on May 8, 2023

Compilation of images: signs at the 1963 March on Washington, poster about censorship, confederate flag, KKK members in hoods, drawing of overseer wielding whip, classroom with portrait of Lincoln on the wall.

Behind the Critical Race Theory Crackdown

Racial blamelessness and the politics of forgetting.

by Sam Adler-Bell via The Forum on January 13, 2022

Bell in 1980. He handled civil-rights cases, then came to question their impact.

The Man Behind Critical Race Theory

As an attorney, Derrick Bell worked on many civil-rights cases, but his doubts about their impact launched a groundbreaking school of thought.

by Jelani Cobb via The New Yorker on September 10, 2021

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