Commentary: The Supreme Court is an engine of repression whose decisions on affirmative action, student debt relief, and abortion rights amount to a war on Black women and girls, writes Marley Dias
By failing to protect abortion rights, the courts opened the floodgates for unsafe, unregulated abortion — rather than reform needed to heal the wounds of centuries of reproductive injustice.
The Supreme Court’s decisions come in the context of historic firsts, both for the court and for Harvard. When Justice Kentanji Brown Jackson and President Claudine Gay made history as the first Black women to be appointed to the Supreme Court and Harvard, respectively, Black women gained a needed seat at the table. But the decisions have shown that we need more than seats at the table — we need systems that recognize, rather than ignore, structural racism, and actively work to address them.
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