Civil rights activists are prepared to fight for Jackson's nomination to the court

Last Friday the four women who founded sistascotus.com were gathered in a room together, celebrating. In 2020, Kim Tignor, Brandi Colander, Sabriya I. Williams and April Reign started talking about the likelihood of another vacancy on the Supreme Court. The four high-powered women decided they wanted to make sure that this time a seat on the bench would be set for a Black woman.

For the past two years they've been "building this grassroots movement toward the support of President Biden's campaign promise to nominate a Black woman to the Supreme court," says Reign, who is best known for the creation of the #OscarsSoWhite movement.

"Yes it's been two years," Williams adds in, "but it's been a long time coming that we had any kind of representation."

That long wait finally ended when Biden announced his