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Fall on campus at a historically black college or university is a big deal

There are football games the marching bands and of course

Homecoming the

massive school wide celebration that doubles as an alumni reunion party

But not this year

The coronavirus pandemic is shattering college plans across the country and with coronavirus hitting black Americans especially hard

HBCUs must think even more critically about reopening campus for fall

On top of the complications from the virus enrollment at HBCUs has been declining for decades

Many students also take out big loans and one average

Graduate with 30% more debt than people at other four-year schools

Some schools have lost accreditation in recent years and six schools have closed over the past two decades

But last week some good news

McKenzie Scott the ex-wife of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announced she was donating

1.7 billion dollars to various causes with tens of millions of dollars going to six prominent HBCUs

The reality is you have to invest in the entire community and that is an investment in how would university that significant

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I'm tremendously and this is into America today

How historically black colleges and universities across the country are coping with the uncertainty of this moment and what this donation means for their future

How would university a private HBCU in Washington DC is one of the schools on the list

It received 40 million dollars from Scott the biggest gift from a single donor in the schools

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