MacKenzie Scott, the billionaire philanthropist and ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has donated a staggering $19.25 billion since 2020. In 2025 alone, Scott has made hundreds of millions of dollars in donations, primarily through her charitable organization, Yield Giving. Her charitable contributions focus on a range of causes, including diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), education,…
Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott has donated $80 million to Howard University, making it one of the largest gifts to a college that has an African-American history. The private, historically Black institution in Washington, DC, in a statement on Monday said that the unrestricted donation will support student aid, infrastructure, research initiatives and hospital operations among…
Alana*, a student at Utah Valley University, was taken aback by the deification of Charlie Kirk in the wake of his assassination on 10 September. As an Afro-Latina genderqueer senior at DC’s Howard University, she found it off-putting when she saw an image on Instagram of Kirk hugging Jesus. “He wasn’t this national hero or…