In NY Daily News, Henderson and Wiley Celebrate Justice Jackson’s Historic Confirmation

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WASHINGTON — In an opinion piece published in the New York Daily News, Wade Henderson, interim president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, and Maya Wiley, incoming president and CEO of the organization, celebrate the Senate’s historic confirmation of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to serve as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court — while noting the unfinished business that remains.

“We honor her confirmation with the joy it deserves. We celebrate her extraordinary confirmation as lifelong civil and human rights advocates and as people whose lives from early childhood were shaped — and stifled — by racial segregation. As Justice Jackson rises as the first Black woman on the Supreme Court, we all rise. Now, urgent work must continue toward building a federal bench dedicated to equal justice for all,” Henderson and Wiley write.

The full text of the opinion piece is available here.

The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights is a coalition charged by its diverse membership of more than 230 national organizations to promote and protect the rights of all persons in the United States. The Leadership Conference works toward an America as good as its ideals. For more information on The Leadership Conference and its member organizations, visit www.civilrights.org.