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Swara reviews the latest episode of DC's Legends of Tomorrow, "The Ex-Factor"

https://madamenoire.com/1230546/wilberforce-university-forgives-student-loan-debt/

During Wilberforce University’s graduation, the graduates received a major surprise from the university’s president, Dr. Elfred Anthony Pinkard. During his speech, he announced that over $375,000 in student loans would be forgiven for the graduates.

“As these graduates begin their lives as responsible adults, we are honored to be able to give them a fresh start by relieving their student debt to the university,” Dr. Pinkard said in a news release.

This doesn’t clear each students student loan debt in total, though. The debt that was cleared doesn’t include federal and state student loans.

According to the Federal Reserve, there is $1.7 trillion in student loan debt in the U.S. Research has shown that Black college students graduate owing more money than white students. According to the National Center for Education Statistics:

Black college graduates have an average of $52,000 in student loan debt and owe an average of $25,000 more than white college graduates. Four years after graduation, almost half of Black borrowers owe 12.5 percent more than what they borrowed due to interest, while 83 percent of white borrowers owe 12 percent less than they borrowed. And over half of Black students say that their student loan debt exceeds their net worth.

Andre Perry, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, said the student loan debt affects the racial wealth gap.

“When you have more student loans, you have less buying power,” Perry told Inside Higher Ed. “You have lower credit scores. It’s a barrier to homeownership. If we really want to help close the racial wealth gap, we would include some provision around student loan cancellation.”

President Joe Biden has been being pushed to forgive $50,000 in federal student loan debt but he claims he doesn’t have the authority to fulfill such a request.

“Cancelling $50,000 of student loan debt is a matter of racial justice. It is a matter of economic justice. It is a matter of generational justice,” Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren said at a news conference in April.

 

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Ok folks, let just dig in, shall we?  Check out a new episode of  Afronerd Radio's The Mid Week in Review internet show, broadcasting live every Wednesday at 8 p .m. eastern, courtesy of BTalk 100. Join your favored AFROnerdist hosts as they unravel this (mid) week's latest mysteries:  the long-awaited and highly-anticipated Marvel post-pandemic cinematic outing, The Eternals just released a somewhat subdued trailer on the cybernets and we'll give you our thoughts:

We were fortunate to have Dr. T Hasan Johnson stop by during this past Sunday's Grindhouse, so we never did get a chance to discuss a pretty big story concerning the WarnerMedia/Discovery merger.  And does this merger signal anything involving Disney (pursuant to what some sources are theorizing); oft-alienating JL filmmaker, Zack Snyder, appears to be continuing his streaming streak with his recent Netflix release of  Army of the Dead;    

And in CW news, it appears that the Black Lightning Painkiller spinoff has been canceled;  Dburt gives his impressions of the current cryptocurrency financial rollercoaster and how this may all end up; hat tip to our resident cinephile, Sergio Mims for tweeting the Werewolves Within trailer to our attention :

  

If time constraints permit,  perhaps we can talk about the current Kwame Brown vs most of "woke" urban media and how he is winning or at the very least, reaffirming the Black "manosphere.":  He even has a differing opinion on the Breonna Taylor tragedy...hmm; so Captain Luthor of Superman & Lois is not who many thought he was.....let's discuss the reveal:     

And lastly, we'll try to fit in the critique about Lena Waithe, Netflix' animated Jurassic World S3 and the CW's planned 4400 reboot.]

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http://www.afronerd.com/2021/05/tulsa-event-canceled-friday-foster.html

 

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And speaking of BWS, perhaps many of us need to pay close attention to actor, Hill Harper's  latest endeavor, The Black Wall Street digital wallet;  the iconic 70s newspaper comic strip, Friday Foster (later given the movie translation treatment, starring Dr. Pam Grier), will be reprinted by ABLAZE Publishing and available in a first-ever hardcover collected edition on June 24th;  Amy Cooper aka the "Central Park Karen" is apparently unrepentant about her racist encounter with Marvel Comics editor and birder, Christian Cooper, as she is suing her former employer for...wait for it....racial discrimination (it is to laugh);  it looks like director, Todd Phillips is looking to go back into his version of Joker's mythology with a sequel to the 2019 billion dollar box office smash; our thoughts about Ta-Nehisi Coates' Black Panther #25 finale as readers/fans await the baton pass to screenwriter, John Ridley's take:

     

Famed HBCU, Howard University renames its College of Fine Arts after T'Challa himself, actor, Chadwick Boseman; critically divisive filmmaker, M. Knight Shyamalan, is back at it again with a new trailer, Old;    

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