For its annual Dr. Martin Luther King Memorial Lecture, Vanderbilt Law School hosted Professor Kevin Woodson to discuss his recent book The Black Ceiling: How Race Still Matters in the Elite Workplace. Woodson is The Austin Owen Faculty Research Scholar and Professor of Law at the University of Richmond. He was previously an associate professor at the Thomas R. Kline School of Law at Drexel University. from Yale Law School, and a B.A. Racial discomfort is a product of “what people bring to the table” — their life experiences, what they have learned through past social experiences, and more.