Activists welcome stated intent to fulfil campaign promise and finally elevate a judge ‘that really understands racism’
Joe Biden’s promise to nominate an African American woman to the supreme court for the first time holds broad symbolic significance for Darlene McDonald, an activist and police reform commissioner in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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Black women have been overlooked in terms of their values and what they have to bring to society as well as to the bench
I would like to see someone like Sherrilyn Ifill or Lia Epperson – a woman who comes out of Thurgood Marshall’s old law firm
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