"The exchange was extraordinary in its circumstances—Jackson was the first Black woman to appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee as a nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court—but to Black women across the country, it was also familiar," writes Mikki Kendall of Ted Cruz's questions on critical race theory during Ketanji Brown Jackson's Senate confirmation hearings. "An occasion that should have been a celebration of how far America has come since the end of slavery was instead a reminder of how fa