If confirmed, Jackson would become the first Black woman to serve in the Supreme Court’s 233-year history
Photo: Diana Bowen Katera Jenkins was in high school when police fatally shot Alton Sterling, a 37-year-old Black man, in her hometown of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She remembers lying awake that night in July 2016, thinking, How could I be a voice for my people? How can I be someone whom my community could lean on if I don’t know my rights as an individual? While Sterling’s death motivated Jenkins to pursue a career in law, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s historic nomination to the U.S.
Jackson’s background — as a federal appellate-court judge who previously worked as a public defender, as a mother of two, as someone who wears her hair in sisterlocks — resonates with Zsa’Queria Martin, a second-year student at Florida A&M University College of Law. To see her before the Senate Judiciary Committee has been a true moment of Black-girl magic, Martin says, in both a room and a career field that remains largely white and male.
While the students’ rally on Monday was joyous, inside the Senate hearing room, things have wavered between celebratory and tense. Republicans so far have spent two days engaging in disingenuous — and, at times, even dangerous — lines of attack.
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