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Oprah Winfrey stuns Charlotte audience with $1.15 million gift to help students | Charlotte Observer
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Oprah Winfrey stuns Charlotte audience with $1.15 million gift to help students
By Joe Marusak
September 28, 2019 06:12 PM, Updated September 30, 2019 12:27 PM
Winfrey was the keynote speaker at the Maya Angelou Women Who Lead Luncheon, organized by the Charlotte UNCF. The fundraiser raised scholarship money for students to attend historically black colleges. By UNCF/Tiffany Jones via Storyful
Oprah Winfrey stunned a packed Charlotte ballroom on Saturday by announcing a major donation to help more local minority students afford and succeed in college.
Winfrey had just finished a half-hour talk on leadership at the 17th annual Maya Angelou Women Who Lead Luncheon at the Westin hotel in uptown when she asked the audience: How much money have you raised?
“We do want to make this the world record-breaking event,” Winfrey quipped to the 1,120 people, mostly women, who attended the United Negro College event.
The United Negro College Fund had hoped to raise $1 million at the event for scholarships for deserving area students to attend historically black colleges. But a running tally on huge video screens showed that $1.15 million had been raised.
Winfrey then announced she would match the amount, boosting the total raised to $2.3 million and bringing everyone to their feet in sustained applause.
“Boom!” UNCF officials tweeted later Saturday afternoon with a video of Oprah on stage. “The awesomeness that is @oprah just matched the $1 million that was raised...””
Boom! The awesomeness that is @oprah just matched the $1million dollars that was raised during the #UNCFCharlotte Maya Angelou Women Who Lead Luncheon. Yes, so now over $2million was raised to support #HBCUs this afternoon! Peep this#UNCF #blackgirlmagic @ Oprah pic.twitter.com/lYeceynhFC
— UNCF (@UNCF) September 28, 2019
“I believe in the power of education,” Winfrey had just finished telling the audience at the end of her speech. “There is nothing better than to open the door for someone.”
In 2007, she founded the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa. Graduates have attended colleges and universities worldwide, including three who graduated from Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte, Winfrey said.
Winfrey also announced plans this month to campaign in Charlotte in 2020 for healthier living. As part of a nine-city winter arena tour, her “Oprah’s 2020 Vision: Your Life in Focus” wellness event is scheduled for Jan. 18 at the Spectrum Center in uptown, the Observer has reported.
On Saturday, she recalled telling Angelou at the famed poet and civil rights activist’s kitchen table in Winston-Salem how she believed the South Africa academy “will be my greatest legacy.”
Angelou chided her, she said.
“‘You have no idea what your legacy is going to be, because your legacy will be every life you touch,’” Winfrey said Angelou told her.
To the Charlotte audience, Winfrey added: “Your legacy is how you treat everybody.”
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