Philanthropist and novelist MacKenzie Scott’s gifts to historically Black colleges and universities surpass $400 million this year alone. Image created in ChaptGPT for BlackPressUSA / NNPA.

By Stacy M. Brown

Black Press USA Senior National Correspondent

There are moments in American life when truth steps forward and refuses to be convenient. MacKenzie Scott has chosen such a moment. As political forces move to strip diversity from classrooms, silence Black scholarship and erase equity from public life, she has gone in the opposite direction. She has invested her wealth in the communities this country has spent centuries trying to marginalize.

Her most recent gifts to historically Black colleges and universities surpass $400 million this year alone. These are not gestures. They are decl

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