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NNPA NEWSWIRE — While many social media posters questioned the messages that our children would glean from “the slap heard around the world” at the 2022 Academy Awards, I wondered what take-aways our children would glean from the awful “verbal slaps of disrespect and mid-sentence cutoffs lodged against the brilliant jurist, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson. The post COMMENTARY: Finally! Another First with the Confirmation of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson first appeared on BlackPressUSA.

A look at how Ketanji Brown Jackson’s path to Supreme Court nomination was paved by trailblazing Black women judges.

In a truly historic vote, the U.S. Senate has confirmed Ketanji Brown Jackson as the next U.S. Supreme Court justice — the first Black woman to sit on the bench.

Scholars discuss the meaning of Ketanji Brown Jackson’s elevation to the highest court in the land.

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Scholars discuss the meaning of Ketanji Brown Jackson’s potential elevation to the highest court in the land.

Just five women and two African Americans, both men, are among the 115 people who have served on the United States’ highest court over more than two centuries. Both of those numbers may change in 2022, with President Joe Biden’s nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, a 51-year-old Washington, D.C., native raised in Miami, to […]

A handful of Black women have worn the black robes of a judge in the past, but none has ever been nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court. Until now.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.)

If Ketanji Brown Jackson is approved by the U.S. Senate to replace retiring Justice...