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Tiara Johnson Talks Debt Relief & being her ancestors Wildest Dreams!

In 2022, Debt Collective and the Rolling Jubilee fund erased 1.7 million in debt owed by 500 Bennett Belles. We spoke to one of these amazing women, Tiara Johnson.

To learn more about Debt Collective, the Rolling Jubilee fund and our work on student debt abolition please read this piece for the New York Times by Tressie McMillan Cottom.

“The message that some people don’t deserve debt relief is a politics of grievance. If you cannot craft a political message that acknowledges that we turned the greatest vehicle of social mobility into a debt machine, then you are not good at messaging. This is the right message: We messed up. Our bad. Make it right. Cancel the debt.”

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