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Opinion: Why Black and Brown Communities Need Student Debt Cancelled Now To get an education many people of color take out loans, but are left indebted for decades. Now is the time to discuss cancelling the debt. Published February 9th Written by Tylik McMillan One of the major issues of the new presidential administration has been student debt cancellation. According to Federal Reserve estimates, Americans owed more than $1.7 trillion in student debt, pushing grassroots activists like Debt Collective and politicians like Bernie Sanders making cancellation a focal point. Activists like Tylik McMillian, National Director of Youth and College for the National Action Network,  are also calling on the White House to act on it, which would relieve millions of people who are already hurting under the weight of the pandemic. In this opinion piece for BET.com, he says it would also take significant pressure away from communities of color, relieving a major financial bu

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