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The article is co-written by Prof. Randall Kennedy (Harvard), a leading scholar of race and the law, and me. It's at 49 Capital University Law Review 1, and you can read it here. A short excerpt that ...

The Los Angeles City Council approved new rules Wednesday banning speakers from using a racial slur and an obscene term for a woman during council and committee meetings. In a 14-0 vote, council ...