What is education today, if it does not serve our underserved Black students? From Brown v. Board of Education  to the post-Reconstruction era , our ancestors, many of them newly freed, built Freedom and Liberation Schools  to teach  truth, culture, and survival. They understood that education was not just about reading and arithmetic; it was about reclaiming identity and resisting erasure. Today, we face a new enemy, the Education Industrial Complex , systems controlled by c