Billionaire pledges to pay student debt for 2019 class at historic black college
Robert Smith made pledge to eliminate students’ debt estimated at $40m at Morehouse College, Martin Luther King’s alma mater
A billionaire technology investor and philanthropist said on Sunday his family would wipe out the student debt of the entire 2019 class at Morehouse College in Atlanta, the alma mater of Martin Luther King Jr.
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