Written, directed by and starring Nana Mensah, this observant portrait of a young woman dealing with her mother’s death and navigating her own diasporic identity is small-scale but affecting.
30 Celebrities Who Were Ivy Leaguers
By Lexi Pandell, Stacker News
On 2/4/21 at 6:30 PM EST
These days, college admissions are a coveted get for many students and their families (with some even going to criminal lengths to make it happen, as seen in the nationwide college admission scandal). Standing apart from the other thousands of colleges in the United States are the Ivy Leagues, which have been put on the highest pedestal of all. The name ivy league isn t just a metaphor: These universities boast greenery covered buildings that originated from ivy-planting sessions in the 1800s.
Today, the Ivy League is comprised of the eight private universities that make up a specific athletic conference in the Northeast. The group includes Brown University in Providence, R.I., Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Yale University in New Haven, Conn., Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., Princeton University in Princeton, N.J., Columbi
Walla Walla Community College to receive $15 million gift from MacKenzie Scott By Eric Degerman on December 16, 2020
Novelist/philanthropist MacKenzie Scott, reportedly the wealthiest woman in the world, has donated $15 million to the Walla Walla Community College Foundation, the school announced on Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020. (Photo courtesy of Walla Walla Community College)
WALLA WALLA, Wash. News of philanthropist MacKenzie Scott’s gift to the Walla Walla Community College Foundation reverberated throughout the region on Tuesday night.
On Wednesday, the magnitude of that donation became clear when the foundation announced that Scott who describes herself modestly as “mom, writer, advocate” after divorcing Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos pledged $15 million to the two-year college.