For Discrimination: Race, Affirmative Action, and the Law

by Randall Kennedy,
The Florida Courier, August 16, 2013

Randall Kennedy attended St. Albans School for Boys, Princeton University and Yale Law School. He served as a law clerk for Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. He is a professor at Harvard Law School. And he has been inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, two of the most prestigious honorific academic organizations in the United States. Affirmative action, he acknowledges, played a role in his admittance to every one of these “selective, expensive, and powerful institutions.”