Cancelling Morehouse students’ debts is about freedom, not just money  NBC News

At Howard University a little over a decade ago, Oprah Winfrey was my commencement speaker; her speech has been rightly celebrated as one of the greatest commencement speeches ever. And in the minutes, hours, days and weeks that followed, I clung to the words “So have no fear. Have no fear. God has got your back.” And then my private student loans soon not merely pushed me against the wall, but also swatted me to the ground; I’ve been trying to stand taller ever since. I have stumbled every single day since the gravity of my choice to fund my education in pursuit of dreams of a better life …