After “racial reckoning summer,” can you believe companies continue to step in it? Whether it’s Juneteenth merch that declares “It’s the freedom for me,” or the constant theft of content from Black creators, what often follows is a general public feeling that if Black people were in the room, this wouldn’t have happened. However, for most of us, the decision to speak up at work is not made lightly.

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s historic nomination to the Supreme Court was confirmed Thursday, but the journey to get here has been long and exhausting — and not just for her but for Black women everywhere. As she put it in her own words, “It has taken 232 years and 115 prior appointments for a Black woman to be selected to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States, but we’ve made it. We’ve made it — all of us.”