Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott announced a transformative $42 million donation to Elizabeth City State University, a historically Black college and university in northeastern North Carolina, marking one of the largest gifts in the institution’s 135-year history. At a naturalization ceremony on June 14, 2016 (center in the back) Chancellor S. Keith Hargrove Sr. revealed the gift during the university’s Founders Day Convocation on Friday, March 13, 2026, eliciting cheers from attendees celebrating the school’s legacy. The unrestricted contribution ranks as the largest dollar-per-student gift among Scott’s recent donations to HBCUs and nearly triples the $15 million she gave ECSU in
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