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It’s always a blessing to be a blessing and media mogul Tyler Perry continues to add more good deeds to his list.
The successful filmmaker dropped a huge donation towards the legal fees of Breonna Taylor’s boyfriend, Kenneth Walker as he fights against a Louisville Police Officer suing him.
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Media mogul Tyler Perry has often been generous to people in their time of need and with a mandatory “stay home” order throughout the nation, he’s come to the rescue yet again.
Grocery stores across the nation have designated the first hour for elderly and medically fragile shoppers in the wake of the COVID19 pandemic and Perry has provided assistance for early morning shoppers in at least two states.
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The students had been working on remixes to Ciara’s hit songs “SET” and “Melanin” as part of a new music competition in partnership with Amazon Future Engineer, which teaches students how to write code that makes music on Georgia Tech’s EarSketch platform.
The superstar singer popped in during a class session and spent some time sharing knowledge with the young up and coming engineers.
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The 2019 graduating class of Morehouse College received a huge surprise yesterday morning.
Graduation keynote speaker Robert F. Smith, philanthropist and investor, shared an inspirational message to the Morehouse men of 2019, as he proudly announced that he and his family were going to eliminate all of their student loan debt.
“My family is going to create a grant to eliminate your student loans,” Smith said to the graduating seniors.
“You great Morehouse men are bound only by the limits of your own conviction and creativity.”
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Clifford “T.I.” Harris is honoring his late sister?s legacy by launching a scholarship program in her honor.
The Atlanta-based entertainer partnered with VH1 and the United Negro College Fund to launch the “Precious Chapman Scholarship Fund”, which is named after his late sister Antoinette ?Precious? Harris Chapman.
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Marlo Hampton of The Real Housewives of Atlanta was feeling so generous recently that she decided to buy out an entire theatre for a screening of “Little”.
Hampton shared the post online, giving “housewife”?Kandi Burruss props for the inspiration, stating:
The #littlemovie was hilarious. @kandi thx for challenging me to buy out a theater – we had fun!
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