As President Biden prepares to nominate the first Black woman to the Supreme Court, we revisit another historic first. Constance Baker Motley was the first Black woman appointed to the federal judiciary and the first to argue before the Supreme Court. Harvard law professor Timoko Brown-Nagin joins Nicole Ellis to discuss her new book on Motely's life and legacy called, "Civil Rights Queen."

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