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Wed Jun 17, 2020, 11:05 AM Jun 2020

Netflix CEO and Wife Give $120 Million to Historically Black Colleges

Source: The Wall Street Journal.

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Netflix CEO and Wife Give $120 Million to Historically Black Colleges
Money will go to scholarships at Morehouse and Spelman Colleges and United Negro College Fund

By Melissa Korn
June 17, 2020 9:15 am ET

Netflix Inc. CEO Reed Hastings and his wife, Patty Quillin, are donating $120 million to historically black colleges and universities, with the funds being split among Morehouse and Spelman Colleges and the United Negro College Fund.

The funds—which, when combined, make for the largest gift ever to historically black colleges—will be used...

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Netflix CEO Reed Hastings and his wife, Patty Quillin, are donating $120 million to historically black colleges and universities, with the funds being split among Morehouse and Spelman Colleges and the United Negro College Fund


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