"A group of legal rights organizations, including the Washington Defender Association, the NAACP, and the ACLU, filed a friend of the court brief that summer, addressing the case's racial aspects.
'Forced family separation — of which the foster care system is the most recent iteration — is a relic of slavery, wherein the State used the courts to rip Black families apart and ignored their pleas of reunification,' the brief stated."
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