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HBCUs Use Federal Funds to Cancel Students’ Debt
Eliminating Black students’ college debt can significantly narrow the racial wealth gap, and HBCUs are making plans to do just that.
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Snowflake Arizona Senate Candidate Is Tired of ‘Anti-White Racism’
Blake Masters wants America to stop it with the anti-white racism that is more commonly know as American history.
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Is Student Loan Debt Hurting Black Homeownership? HUD Secretary Says Yep!
Marcia Fudge linked a decline in Black homeownership to student loan debt while touting HUD plans to remove barriers between Black people and mortgage lenders.
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Wilberforce University Cancels Student Debt for Graduating Class
Wilberforce University, an Ohio-based HBCU, announced on Saturday that it would cancel the student loan debt of the 2021 graduating classes. Damn, all my university gave me when I graduated was a flash drive. I mean yeah, I got a lot of mileage out of that flash drive, but still. According to CNN, university President…
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This Ain't What Jesus Died For
“A wise man told me, ‘Don’t argue with fools’‘Cause people from a distance can’t tell who is who…” I think Jay-Z was onto something. While the rest of us went about our rather uneventful Thursdays, five-time world champion Floyd Mayweather had an upcoming exhibition match to promote. So as is customary in these types of…
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2021 Grammys Fashion Affirmed What We Already Knew: Black Women Are Superheroes
If you watched the 63rd annual Grammy Awards on Sunday night, you might’ve sensed a theme. In a ceremony full of diverse and necessarily distanced performances, it may have been unintentional on the part of the show’s producers, but it certainly didn’t escape the notice of The Root’s Staff Entertainment Writer Tonja Stidhum: The night…
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‘I Will Not Make That Happen’: Biden Says No to $50,000 Student Debt Forgiveness
Get ready to lower your expectations if you’d been hoping that President Biden would heed the call of some Democrats to cancel student debt up to $50,000 per borrower. The president outright rejected that idea during a town hall hosted by CNN in Milwaukee on Tuesday. After a member of the audience asked Biden how…