By Michelle Tyrene Johnson ·Updated April 21, 2022
Much of the country has extolled the triumph of this nation getting its first Black woman on the United States Supreme Court. As it should.
But the beauty of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation is also its pain. The weighty pain of such an important “first” this late in the American story.
Because where there is a first, there’s all the void that came before
