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May 24, 2022

Activists Erase $1.7 Million in Student Debt for Black Women at Bennett College
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In North Carolina, students at Bennett College with past-due tuition
bills in collection will see $1.7 million of their debts erased. The
union of borrowers known as the Debt Collective purchased and paid off
the student loans of nearly 500 Black women at Bennett, a historically
Black, all-women liberal arts college in Greensboro. This comes as
activists pressure President Biden to uphold his campaign pledge to
cancel student debt - now a $1.7 trillion burden held by some 44 million
people across the U.S.


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