I loved attending an HBCU, but now I’m still struggling with student loan debt 20 years later. I don’t want the same for my kids.0

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• August 29, 2026

Since I was 11, I dreamed of attending a historically Black college or university. That dream started at Morgan State University in Baltimore, where I spent two weeks each summer in a program focused on leadership and academics. For a preteen growing up in Baltimore City, Morgan felt like another world. I had seen drug