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Who Is Robert F. Smith?

Posted on May 20, 2019 by D'Juan Hopewell

By now you know that a Black billionaire spoke at Morehouse’s 2019 graduation ceremony and pledged to pay off the student loan debt of the entire class. His name? Robert Frederick Smith. He is the richest Black person in America — richer than Oprah and Jordan, combined. He largely made his fortune investing in the […]

Jay Z’s Foundation To Take High School Students On HBCU Bus Tour

Posted on April 26, 2019 by D'Juan Hopewell

Jay Z is no stranger to going on tour but this current one is all about Black institutions. The Shawn Carter Foundation has taken 125 high school students from New York and New Jersey on a bus tour of 11 HBCUs. Each of the students have previously been accepted to at least one school and […]

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Who Is Robert F. Smith?

Jay Z’s Foundation To Take High School Students On HBCU Bus Tour

HBCU Wilberforce Founded on August 20, 1856