The Trump administration has increased the cost of payments and begun garnishing wages from people behind on their student loans.
DOJ announced that Southeast Bank would pay $1.5 million to resolve federal claims to Black and Indigenous graduates.
Watch Howard University students and debate team members Cymone Smith and Robert Khalil Kelly argue over whether debt should be forgiven.
On Sunday, the Biden Administration launched a beta website for its SAVE (Saving on a Valuable Education) Plan for student loan borrowers.
Biden announced a new effort to forgive student loans under the Higher Education Act of 1965.
Republican governors are framing student debt cancellation as a class issue, pushing the false narrative that relief punishes the poor and rewards the rich.
Black women are uniquely saddled with student loan debt.
President Biden has the ability to mandate mass debt relief for millions of Black students, but will he finally deliver on his promise come August? We'll just have to wait and see.
The student loan debt crisis is worsening, Black and Latino borrowers say.
President Joe Biden's speech from North Carolina A&T State University is expected to address rising prices at a time when Black students disproportionately saddled by debt are among the most adversely affected by the inflation crisis.
The Student Freedom Initiative is one of the organizations trying to correct the problem of bad student loan agreements by providing social and economic mobility for STEM-studying juniors and seniors at HBCUs for years to come.
