>> melba, you got a lot of student loans, but do i have great news for you. there is a brand-new federal program, and since you work for the federal government, if you stay with the feds, you're going to love this. it is an income-based repayment plan. and after ten years' employment with the feds, all your federal loans, whatever remains balance of those, will be forgiven. all right. here's what i want you to do. i want you to pay the minimum that's required under the income-based plan toward your federal loans, and throw every last dollar you can towards your private loans. and big priority for you. on the student loan front, here's my rule if you are in school -- parents of kids getting ready to go to college, do not in four years take out more student loan debt in total than what you're likely earnings are going to be in the first yea years' employment after college. use that as a maximum ceiling of how much money you borrow. you'll really thank me later if you follow that. >>> you have a complaint about one of the giant cell phone companies. what have th

ernie, melba, many gene, it is but, gloria, terry, jefferson and thelma.in the public mind, we are one, the "little rock nine." we are in essence nine distinct personalities with nine different stories. it is much a story about dedication of family, perseverance, and sacrifice as it is about the journey and the history. it is a salute to my parents, who stayed silently in the background and swallowed a great risk and suffering. they were the ones who had ingrained in me a quiet confidence that jim crow be damned. i was not a second class citizen. it was that confident that told me i deserved a quality education to the supreme court said i was due. the confidence that steadied my feet to divide the races with my mere presence at school every single day. my parents bequeathed to me the confidence of their founders, both hard-working black entrepreneurs in control of their own economic lives. my family may have seemed unlikely candidates for involvement in a movement that would spark nationwide change, but then again, that is the point of this book. to show t