“Hands that picked cotton, will pick Presidents,” Jesse Louis Jackson use to chant. Not only have they picked presidents, the children of the formerly enslaved are now holding twice impeached, former President Trump accountable. Here are five of them:

Representative Benny Thompson (D-Mississippi), the gradate of two Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU), Tougaloo College and Jackson State, now chairs the House committee investigating the January 6  attempted coup.

New York State Attorney General Leticia James, the HBCU Howard University Law School graduate has been at the helm of several high profile investigations including one that brought on the resignation of New York Governor Coumo and investigating the Trump Organization and its officers in a probe to determine whether the company improperly inflated the value of assets on financial statements to obtain loans, insurance, and tax benefits, along with how employees were compensated.

Manhattan, New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg was born on Harlem’s famous Strivers’ Row. Now that he has been elected to the job, he inherits an investigation into Trump and his business practices and the decision whether to make Donald Trump the first former president ever charged with a crime.

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, who was raised by HBCU graduates, was recently appointed by President Biden to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. Brown Jackson was part of the three-judge panel that ruled that although Trump retained some authority to claim executive privilege, it was not enough to overcome Biden's decision that Congress has a legitimate need for materials from his presidency and now stored at the National Archives. Trump has appealed their ruling to the Supreme Court.

Judge Emmet Sullivan, a double HBCU graduate of Howard University, Sullivan notified Biden that he will step back April 3, allowing Biden to fill a vacancy on the influential court that oversees the nation’s capital.  However, the DC public school graduate, may be remembered for his ruling against Trump’s friend Michael Flynn, who had pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his Russian contacts while the agency probed whether Trump aides conspired with Moscow to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. “I’m not hiding my disgust, my disdain, for this criminal offense. Arguably, you sold your country out.” Trump later pardoned Flynn.

About ten Capitol Hill Police officers plus two Washington, DC officers, some whom are Black, are suing Trump under the KKK Act of 1871, which was designed to eliminate extralegal violence and protect the civil and political rights of four million enslaved Africans. The law that includes protections against violent conspiracies that interfere with Congress’ constitutional duties.