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MacKenzie Scott gifts $80 million to Howard University, marking one of the school’s largest donations in its 158-year history

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Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott has been on a roll. In just the past few weeks, she’s made several multimillion-dollar donations to DEI and disaster relief causes. 

And on Sunday, Howard University announced that Scott, who is worth an estimated $35.6 billion, had donated $80 million to the historically Black school. 

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