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While the Brown decision was a crucial step toward equality in education, its promise remains unfulfilled.

Earlier this year, the Department of Labor issued a notice of proposed rulemaking to update the National Apprenticeship System to align registered apprenticeships to the evolving needs of workers, employers, and the economy.

India Heckstall was quoted: "Pursuing higher education can negatively impact Black families’ wealth because of the debt burden."

This article quoted a report written by CLASP's India Heckstall and Christian Collins on Black student fathers.

On this Black Women’s Equal Pay Day, we are highlighting the injustice in our economy that fails to recognize and value the labor of Black women.

By India Heckstall  On June 19, 1865, enslaved Africans and African Americans in Galveston, Texas, formally learned of the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation that legally ended slavery. Juneteenth, a blending of the words June and nineteenth, has often been overlooked by non-Black Americans and…