This issue is featured in the Summer 2026 issue of ESSENCE, on newsstands July 21st. On a cool morning in May, Harriet Tubman arrived at the chambers of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman to sit on the Supreme Court of the United States since the nation’s birth 250 years ago.
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