And they rallied in support for Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court confirmation….
If Emanuela Cebert’s father were alive, she would have been watching the first day of Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings on TV with him.
But on Monday morning, Cebert, 35, stood among a throng of Jackson supporters on the steps of the Supreme Court, wearing a T-shirt with Jackson’s illustrated image on it. The jubilant crowd, many of them Black women, had rallied to support the federal judge’s historic nomination. If confirmed, she would be the first Black woman to sit on the nation’s highest court….
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Monday’s rally, timed with the start of Jackson’s confirmation hearings, was an assertion of joy amid a confirmation process that has made some Black women leaders wary of how racism, sexism and party politics could shape the conversation. The event was put together by Black women-led organizations, including the National Women’s Law Center, Black Women’s Roundtable, the National Urban League and historically Black sororities. And it was just the first of many held by and for Black women throughout the week.
“We need a little joy in this moment,” said Glynda Carr, a political strategist and co-founder of Higher Heights, a group that helps elect and support Black women in politics.
“If that little joy comes in the fact that this woman looks like us — looks like me, from my hair to my glasses to the hue of my skin — it gives you the possibilities that exist, in that we can always reach higher,” she added.
Jackson may be sitting at the table by herself this week, but Carr and others said they wanted her to feel a wave of support behind her. In addition to the Monday morning rally, Black women’s groups across the country have organized virtual and in-person watch parties to commune and help soak in the moment….
image….Nadia Brown