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R.I.’s first Black Supreme Court justice is sworn in ‘The arc of the moral universe is long,’ Justice Melissa A. Long says, ‘but it does indeed bend toward justice.” By Edward Fitzpatrick Globe Staff,Updated January 11, 2021, 4:45 p.m. Email to a Friend Judge Melissa A. Long spoke on the steps of the Rhode Island State House after she was sworn in as the first Black justice on the Rhode Island Supreme Court.Suzanne Kreiter/Globe staff PROVIDENCE — Judge Melissa A. Long on Monday became the first Black justice on the Rhode Island Supreme Court, saying, “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it does indeed bend toward justice.”

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