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Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott has donated $20 million to Delaware State University.
Scott has already become one of the most significant benefactors for racial equity causes, announced her second cycle of charitable donations. Scott donated unprecedented $4.158 billion to 384 nonprofit and charitable organizations, including a $20 million gift to Delaware State University.
Scott is the former wife of Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos.
Her donation is largest single gift ever received by Delaware State University.
Scott, recently listed by
Forbes as one of the world’s “most powerful women,” noted in her statement that in selecting the recipient organizations, she and her advisors “took a data-driven approach to identifying organizations with strong leadership teams and results, with special attention to those operating in communities facing high projected food insecurity, high measures of racial inequity, high local poverty rates, and low access to ph
MacKenzie Scott’s $6 billion gifts aren’t handouts. They’re investments in people and opportunities.
It is impossible to not appreciate the impact of a single donor dishing out $6 billion this year mostly to small charities, nonprofits and historically underfunded educational institutions.
MacKenzie Scott, the ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, is showing how donors can make smart choices and disperse money quickly to recipients who have pressing needs and a track record of accomplishments. And, unlike some big donors, Scott isn’t getting a building with her name on it or other symbols to recognize her largesse.
In a blog post explaining her philanthropy, Scott pointed to the persistent inequities of this pandemic, which she described as “a wrecking ball in the lives of Americans already struggling” the poor and people of color while the wealth of billionaires, including her own, has substantially increased.
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A former diversity recruiter at Google opened up about her firing from the tech giant in a lengthy Twitter thread Monday evening, claiming that one of her White managers called her heavy Baltimore accent a disability that she should disclose when meeting with staff internally.
April Christina Curley, a Black queer woman who joined Google in 2014, said she was hired by the company to fundamentally shift the relationship (or lack thereof) that Google had with Historically Black Colleges and Universities, claiming that the tech giant has previously NEVER hired an HBCU student into a tech role.
A former diversity recruiter at Google has opened up about her firing in a lengthy Twitter thread
April Christina Curley accuses the tech giant of showing her the door because they were tired of hearing me call them out on their racist bulls
Curley, a black woman, joined Google in 2014 noting she quickly became aware of all the racist s put in place to keep black students out of their pipeline I routinely called out shady recruitment practices such as screening out resumes of students with unfamiliar school/university names, she said. I experienced active abuse and retaliation from several managers who harassed me- and many other black women.
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The country band Lady A previously Lady Antebellum is opening up about their decision to change their moniker.
The Grammy-winning group, which is comprised of members, Hillary Scott, Charles Kelley and Dave Haywood, recently appeared on the syndicated Tamron Hall Show where they discussed the move that was made over the summer amid the Black Lives Matter movement. The heart of our decision still rings true today as much as it did back in June when we made this announcement, Scott, 34, told Hall on Friday when asked about some of the criticism the trio faced when they revealed the news.