Blank Foundation’s $50M HBCU initiative sees first graduates

For many college students, the final hurdle to a degree isn't a difficult exam—it's a balance on a tuition statement. The Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation announced a major milestone in its efforts to remove those barriers, revealing that its $50 million HBCU scholarship initiative has already distributed more than $4.2 million to students in its first year. The announcement comes just days before some of the program’s first recipients are set to walk across the graduation stage at Clark Atlanta University, Morehouse College, and Spelman College.