HBCU Receives $1.7M To Clear Account Balances For Nearly 500 Black Women
Graduation season is usually accompanied by receiving congratulatory gifts and the big question of what’s next. Well, nearly 500 women at North Carolina’s Bennett College got an answer for the future in the form of a gift. Debt Collective, a union of debtors rallying against consumer debt, contacted the president of the HBCU and offered to clear the debt for the current graduating class… they chose Bennet College because data indicated that Black women have higher student loan balances than any other group of student loan borrowers.
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by Josh Rodgers, Yahoo!News.