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2025 OBSERVER Person of The Year: Dr. Dawnte Early
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Opinion
The Student Loan Crisis Is About to Get Worse
Court threats to the SAVE plan could raise student loan payments and deepen financial strain for Black borrowers nationwide.
What’s in a Coin?
When abolition and civil rights are removed from currency, history itself is rewritten. Here’s why it matters.
I Came of Age at College. I Fear for My Grandchildren There
We faced racism on campus. This generation faces that — plus lockdown drills and the reality of mass shootings.
