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Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman nominated for a seat on the Supreme Court, knows what it's like to have her qualifications questioned.

She has an answer.

"I cannot recall a single time in my childhood in which I cared about the slights and misperceptions and underestimations that came my way," Jackson said while accepting a Black Law Students Association award in

Fact-checkers don’t like to talk about themselves. They pride themselves on staying out of the limelight and reporting the truth about readers’ communities. But this week at GlobalFact 9, the annual conference held by the International Fact-Checking Network, the attention is in an unfamiliar spot: on the journalists — and their relationship to democracy.

In a keynote session, Poynter

Cutting taxes for the rich helps the poor. There is no such thing as a Republican or a Democratic judge. Climate change is a hoax.

Some political myths refuse to die despite all evidence the contrary. Here's another:

When White people are no longer a majority, racism will fade and the US "will never be a White country again."

This myth was reinforced recently when the US