Column — Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson and the Slowly Bending Arc of Justice

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Harriet Tubman’s birth date is unknown, but some estimate it as March, 1822 – exactly 200 years before Judge Jackson’s historic Supreme Court confirmation hearing, and just over 200 years after the first Africans were sold into slavery in North America in 1619. The arc, 400 years long, is bending towards justice. Democracy Now! is a daily independent news hour hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan González. Visit democracynow.org to watch and listen to the latest interviews, read through show transcripts, search the vast news archive or to make a donation to support our nonprofit news program. Livestream weekdays 8 a.m. ET. Follow Democracy Now! on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, SoundCloud and iTunes.