Black Women’s Mental Health and the Student Debt Crisis
August 05, 2022 by Letisha Marrero Any moment now, the Biden administration will announce its plan to forgive student debt as the moratorium on loan payments will expire at the end of this month. While mounting…
How Student Debt Harms Black Borrowers’ Mental Health
July 28, 2022 by Victoria Jackson, Jalil B. Mustaffa, Ph.D. Approximately 45 million Americans carry $1.7 trillion in student loan debt, but the financial challenges facing Black borrowers are…
How Black Women Experience Student Debt
April 07, 2022 by Victoria Jackson, Brittani Williams Forty-five million Americans collectively owe $1.7 trillion in student loan debt, and women hold nearly two-thirds of it. But…
Jim Crow Debt
October 20, 2021 by Jalil B. Mustaffa, Ph.D., Jonathan Davis Student debt has been a crisis for years, and the pandemic has only exacerbated matters for many borrowers. This is especially true for Black borrowers, who are among those most negatively affected by student loans.
Black Student Loan Borrowers: College Debt Is Lifetime Sentence That Widens Racial Wealth Gap
October 20, 2021 by Ed Trust (WASHINGTON) – A new research brief from The Education Trust shows that the student debt crisis places an especially heavy burden on Black Americans with student loans. Jim Crow Debt:…
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Student Loans Are a Labor Issue
April 16, 2020 by Jalil B. Mustaffa, Ph.D. Canceling student loans is front and center in the national discussion because coalitions like The Debt Collective and Movement for Black Lives put it there. As a part of a…
To Tackle the Black Student Debt Crisis, Target the Racial Wealth Gap
April 16, 2020 by Fenaba R. Addo, William Darity, Jr. It is well documented that Black students borrow more for college and have higher rates of nonpayment and default. Among college graduates, the average Black borrower has more than $7,000…
Can Debt Relief and Investment in HBCUs Level the Playing Field for Black Students?
April 16, 2020 by Ashley Harrington From our nation’s founding to the present, government-sponsored and supported policies have relegated Black Americans to the outskirts of mainstream society. Since the first Africans were forcibly brought, in 1619,…