Forbes, April 29, 2016: How Student Debt Disproportionately Affects Low-Income Black Students

"Study after study has proven that money is not gender-blind, and there’s a growing body of research showing that it’s not color-blind, either. According to a new paper from Brookings senior fellow and Washington University professor Michal Grinstein-Weiss, not only are the odds of student loan indebtedness twice as high for low-to-moderate income black students as they are for low-to-moderate income white students, but low-income black students have nearly $8,000 more in student debt than their white counterparts."