Editor’s note: Black students are more likely than their peers to borrow money for college, struggle with repayment and default on student loans. With the debt problem for black students in particular reaching urgent levels, The Education Trust and The Hechinger Report have partnered on a series of op-eds to amplify the voices of people […]

Luke Frederick
Luke Frederick is a doctoral student at Georgetown University where his research focuses on the policing and incarceration of free blacks and enslaved workers in antebellum America and the Research Director for the Ohio Student Association.