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Today at Ms. | March 21, 2022
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Judge Jackson’s Nomination Bends the Arc of the Moral Universe Toward Justice [[link removed]]
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Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson meets with Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.V.) in Capito’s office in the U.S. Senate on March 15, 2022. On Thursday, a group of almost 200 social justice organizations released a letter calling on senators to support Jackson, saying, “The nomination of Judge Jackson marks a significant historic and long overdue milestone for our country.” (Mandel Ngan / AFP via Getty Images)
BY THE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE ON CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS | On March 21, 1965, thousands of marchers left Selma, Alabama, headed to the capital city of Montgomery in their quest for the freedom to vote. Fifty-seven years later—on March 21, 2022—the Senate Judiciary Committee will consider, for the first time, the nomination of a Black woman to serve on the highest court in our nation.
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Care Workers Are Essential. It’s Time to Build a Caring Economy. [[link removed]]
BY CESIA ALVAREZ and MELISSA LARATTE | When crises strike, we turn to our friends, families and sometimes even complete strangers to provide an extra set of caring and supporting hands. Care workers have always played an essential role in our communities, from assisting with child care to providing professional support to the elderly.
Our government has a once in a generation opportunity to pass policies that would support fair pay and dignified work conditions for caregivers, investing in the essential caregiving economy.
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‘The Three Mothers’ Shines a Light on Untold Herstories of Black Motherhood [[link removed]]
BY MEREDITH ABDELNOUR | In her debut, The Three Mothers, author Anna Maliaka Tubbs tells the stories of Berdis Baldwin, Alberta King, and Louise Little—the mothers of James Baldwin, Martin Luther King Jr., and Malcolm X respectively. Tubbs emphasizes that although these men are some of the most recognizable names in the Civil Rights Movement, the movement didn’t start with them.
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President Biden has announced Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as the nominee to succeed Justice Stephen Breyer on the United States Supreme Court. Who is she? What’s her background? And why is she one of the most qualified and prepared nominees that this process has seen in nearly a century? New from our "Road to Confirmation" series: We unpack Judge Jackson’s qualifications and examine what’s next in the process.
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