We already love them for their impeccable artistry, but now we can say we love them for supporting our very own HBCUs! Mainstream entertainers Tyrese Gibson, Usher Raymond, Future and Young Jeezy have each recently donated $25,000 to The United Negro College Fund while at the 33rd annual UNCF Atlanta Mayor’s Masked Ball!!! The men’s donations helped the organization to surpass their goal of $1 million.
According to the UNCF, these donations will help support 37 historically black colleges that are within the network of the organization. These donations also help to support over 60,000 students a year attend college, and there have been more than 430,000 beneficiary graduates from this monetary support. Some of these universities include Jarvis Christian College, Wiley College, and Huston-Tillotson University.
Of course Gibson took to IG about how proud he was of his brothers answering the call to donate to the organization. Here is what he posted on his page:
We are just as proud of these men for giving back to the universities that educated African-Americans before we were allowed to be educated in other institutions. These contributions are yet another way of saying that historically black colleges and universities still educate some of the world’s best scholars even after the Reconstruction and Civil Rights eras.
For more information on how you can obtain a scholarship from the UNCF, click here, or go to www.uncf.org.
