By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior Correspondent
During a recent virtual address to the class of 2020 college graduates, Oprah Winfrey spoke of the need to provide for those impacted by the coronavirus pandemic.
Through the Oprah Winfrey Charitable Foundation, the OWN Network boss announced she was donating $12 million to organizations dedicated to helping underserved communities in Chicago, Baltimore, Nashville, Milwaukee and Kosciusko, Mississippi.
Even when the virus is gone, the devastation left by people not being able to work for months who were holding on paycheck to paycheck, who have used up their savings — people are going to be in need,” Winfrey told the Associated Press.
In Baltimore, where she once worked, Winfrey is donating money to Living Classrooms Foundation and Center for Urban Families.
“I want to be able to reach people who have been incarcerated and are coming out of prison,” Winfrey noted.
