Nearly 3,000 Morehouse Graduates Get $10M In Student Debt Forgiven By Activist Group
By Nyah Peebles Nearly 3,000 Morehouse College graduates’ student debt has been cleared thanks to the Debt Collective — a debtors union pushing to abolish all forms of debt. On Monday, the Debt Collective announced it collaborated with the all-men’s HBCU to wipe out all outstanding account balances that were in collections for the fall 2022 term and prior. According to the university, Morehouse transferred the remaining balances to the Rolling Jubilee Fund, the Debt Collective’s sister organization, eliminating $9.7 million for 2,777 former students as a “no-strings-attached gift.” “Our nation is defaulting on the promise of education when we burden communities, especially