Two Years In, What Has President Joe Biden Done for Black Americans?
Black Americans helped deliver the Presidency to Joe Biden and he appointed Kamala Harris as his VP, but how else has he delivered on his end of the bargain?
Biden Nominated Twenty-Five Black Judges to The Federal Court
Dixon has some clear examples to back-up his point. In his first two years in office, Biden nominated at least 25 Black judges to the federal court and the first Black Woman to the Supreme Court, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.
Speaking of promoting competent Black women. Dixon also pointed to Biden’s decision to choose Kamala Harris as his VP. “That was significant,” says Dixon.
“He selected Kamala Harris as his running mate, making her the first African American Vice President in our history,” he says.
While Biden’s policy agenda has largely been hamstrung (we’ll get into that in a minute), Dixon says we can’t discount the impact of Biden’s work at the executive level on voting rights. In March of 2021, Biden enacted a sweeping executive order directing federal agencies to expand access to voting.
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