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  • Billionaire will pay off debt of Morehouse College's 2019 graduates. Here's what that gesture means

    05/20/2019 7:20:14 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 46 replies
    CNN ^ | 05/20/2019 | Darran Simon
    Billionaire investor Robert F. Smith's commitment to pay off the student loan debt for graduates of the historically black Morehouse College covers millions of dollars, the school said. "When you have to service debt, the choices about what you can go do in the world are constrained," Morehouse President David A. Thomas said Sunday. "(Smith's gift) gives them the liberty to follow their dreams, their passions." Thomas told CNN on Monday that the exact amount of student loan debt to be covered was still being calculated. Smith's gesture, which Thomas called "a liberation gift," will enable graduates to have more...