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The route to work is always the same. Leave the highway and turn right on Sandra Bland Parkway. Follow it to its end, past the location where a state trooper stopped Bland’s car the confrontation that would lead to her arrest and ultimately her death and drive onto the campus of Texas’s Prairie View A&M University, one of 101 historically Black colleges and universities, or HBCUs. Once there, I see what Bland must have seen on her first day of college, and what I saw on the first day of mine nearly 30 years ago: a beautiful campus with lush oaks and stately buildings that tell the story of a people whose freedom has been forged in the face of injustice and whose joy is political resistance.
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MacKenzie Scott announced that she made an additional $4.2 billion donations in the last four months. DPA/AFP via Getty Images Text size
Author and philanthropist MacKenzie Scott’s announcement of a $4.2-billion charitable donation not only places her as a top donor in the U.S., but also sets a new standard of philanthropy: giving strategically and quickly, experts say.
Scott, 50, ex-wife of Amazon founder and chief executive Jeff Bezos, announced on Tuesday that she has given away more than $4 billion to 384 organizations in the last four months. Many of the organizations are focused on basic needs, including Covid-19 relief programs.