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    Charleston - Race, Water, and the Coming Storm

    Harvard Law professor Susan Crawford argued that Charleston, South Carolina, is emblematic of the problems America will face with both racism and climate change. The Harvard Bookstore hosted…

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    Nigger - The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word

    Harvard Law School professor Randall Kennedy discussed the word “nigger” and its various meanings and uses, and examines the controversies triggered by the word. Politics and Prose Bookstore…

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    Say It Loud

    Harvard Law School Professor Randall Kennedy weighed in on social justice issues in America. The Free Library of Philadelphia hosted this virtual event.

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    After Words with Robert Woodson

    American history is being replaced with a polarizing version according to Woodson Center founder and president Robert Woodson, the author of Red, White, and Black: Rescuing American History …

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    Justice Thurgood Marshall

    Four prominent figures in American law including Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan recalled their experiences working as clerks for Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. They discussed Ma…

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    The Crooked Path to Abolition

    Civil War historian James Oakes examined how Abraham Lincoln thoughout his political career used the Constitution to abolish slavery. This was a virtual event hosted by the Massachusetts His…

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    Reconstruction and the U.S. Supreme Court

    Legal historian Paul Finkelman and Harvard law Professor Randall Kennedy presented talks on the role of the U.S. Supreme Court in the Reconstruction era. Paul Finkelman detailed why he belie…

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    How Rights Went Wrong

    Columbia University Law Professor Jamal Greene looked at America’s approach to individual rights and offered his thoughts on how to build a better system of justice. This virtual event was h…

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    Author Discussion on Race

    Authors John McWhorter, Randall Kennedy, and Jason Riley and City Journal's Christopher Rufo discussed critical race theory and ideology in America. This virtual program was sponsored by the…

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    African American Students and the First Amendment

    Harvard Law professor Randall Kennedy talked about the origins of first amendment rights for African American student protesters. He is author of the forthcoming book, From Protest to Law: T…

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    Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word

    Professor Randall Kennedy talked about his book, Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word, published by Pantheon Books. The book traces the word “nigger,” to identify how it has been…

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    Open Phones with Randall Kennedy

    Randall Kennedy talked about his book, For Discrimination: Race, Affirmative Action, and the Law, and also responded to viewer telephone calls and comments. He spoke at the 2014 Miami Boo…

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    For Discrimination

    Randall Kennedy talked about his book, For Discrimination: Race, Affirmative Action, and the Law, in which he looks at the history of affirmative action policies and argues that affirmative …

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    In Depth with Randall Kennedy

    Randall Kennedy talked about his life, work, and career. A Rhodes Scholar, he served as a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and is currently a professor at Harvard Law Sch…

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    The Persistence of the Color Line

    Randall Kennedy talked about his book The Persistence of the Color Line: Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency and responded to viewer calls and electronic communications. He was intervie…

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    After Words with Randall Kenedy

    In his latest book, legal scholar Randall Kennedy explores the influence of racial politics on the administration of the first black president. Some of the questions he attempts to answer ar…

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    Social, Economic, and Political Division

    Authors, political scientists, and sociologists talked about the issues that divide and separate Americans. Topics debated include immigration, poverty, and race. Former Supreme Court Justic…

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    Sellout: The Politics of Racial Betrayal

    Randall Kennedy talked about his book Sellout: The Politics of Racial Betrayal, published by Pantheon. In his book Professor Kennedy examined the idea of “selling out” -- of betraying or neg…

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    Brown v. Board of Education

    Mr. Patterson led a panel discussion about his book Brown v. Board of Education: A Civil Rights Milestone and Its Troubled Legacy, published by Oxford University Press. The book revisits the…

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    Plessy v. Ferguson Re-Argument

    Distinguished jurists heard a re-argument of Plessy v. Ferguson, the 1896 Supreme Court case in which the Court found that Louisiana did not discriminate against Homer A. Plessy when it refu…

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