The Negro Mother

You are looking a photo I can across on law.com. I was looking for someone I met who I lost contact of and found this photo.

The caption read: On Feb. 14, 2024, oral arguments before the Appellate Division, First Department were heard for the first time by an all-African American bench. From left to right, were Justice Bahaati Pitt-Burke, Justice Troy K. Webber, Presiding Justice Dianne T. Renwick, Justice Tanya R. Kennedy and Justice Marsha D. Michael. David Handschuh/OCA

I thought of Langston Hughes’ poem, The Negro Mother.

Lift high my banner out of the dust. 
Stand like free men supporting my trust. 
Believe in the right, let none push you back. 
Remember the whip and the slaver’s track. 
Remember how the strong in struggle and strife
Still bar you the way, and deny you life – 
But march ever forward, breaking down bars. 
Look ever upward at the sun and the stars. 
Oh, my dark children, may my dreams and my prayers 
Impel you forever up the great stairs – 
For I will be with you till no white brother 
Dares keep down the children of the Negro Mother.