Paying it Forward

Yesterday I read that Calvin and Tina Tyler had pledged 20 million dollars to Morgan State College, the most generous private donation ever made to an historically Black school. 

While their generosity is inspiring, perhaps the most surprising detail is that Morgan State does not count Calvin Tyler among its graduates. Ironically, he had been forced to drop out of MSC forty years earlier, no longer able to afford the price of tuition. 

Now countless others will never know this circumstance, recipients of the need-based scholarships that carry his name. Paying it forward never looked so good......

"I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back." – Maya Angelou