While the mediocre white education loan borrower owes doing $31,100000 for the student debt; the typical Black colored debtor owes closer to $34,100000

Juneteenth has come and gone, and as a native Texan, I love that everyone can now celebrate it as a federally recognized holiday. But I also want my people to celebrate something else-freedom from the heavy burden of student loans that Black men and women are saddled with more than anyone else. As a student loan debt survivor who is trying to crawl his way out of the six figure sum of debt I took on just to get half a shot of the kind of success most white people trip into, I want more of us to have money to spend for the next Juneteenth holiday weekend. Lees verder →