Singer Beyonce on Monday said she was offering $100,000 in scholarship money to students at four historically African-American colleges and universities in the United States.
The donation cameon the back of her acclaimed two-hour performance at the Coachella music festival,
Beyonces performance at the Coachella festival in the Southern California desert on Saturday was billed as a homage to education and black American culture, featuring a marching band, performance art, choir and dance. She was supported by more than 150 performers on stage.
We honour all institutions of higher learning for maintaining culture and creating environments for optimal learning which expands dreams and the seas of possibilities for students, Ivy McGregor, who administers the singers BeyGood foundation, said in a statement announcing the scholarship.
The more than 100 historically black U.S. colleges and universities were all established before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 when white-dominated institutions of higher education could bar African American students.
Last year, the 36-year-old singer established a merit scholarship program to support young women.
The Formation singers Coachella performance, which was streamed live on YouTube, was hailed as an unprecedented celebration of black cultural influence in America by NBC News.
Trade publication Variety called Beyonces show, her first in more than a year, a musical, visual and physical triumph.
Beyonce will perform again at Coachella this Saturday and she and her husband, rapper Jay Z, are set to begin a U.S. and European tour together in June.
Source: NAN