Randall Kennedy is the Michael R. Klein Professor of law at Harvard Law School where he teaches courses on contracts and the regulation of race relations.

He attended st. albans school, Princeton university, and yale law school. He served as a law clerk to judge j. skelly wright and justice Thurgood marshall. He is a member of the bars of the district of Columbia and the supreme court of the united states. He has written several books, the most recent of which is Say It Loud! : On race, law, history, and culture.

“In important parts of American life there is a denial. A denial of the continuing influence of bad racial sentiments, bad racial habits, and bad racial vestiges of oppression in American life.”