Addressing Morehouse College’s class of 2019, a man who is richer than Oprah Winfrey made a grand gesture straight out of the television mogul’s playbook. “My family is going to create a grant to eliminate your student loans,” the speaker, Robert F. Smith, said on Sunday morning in a commencement address that brought the approximately 400 students in caps and gowns to their feet. “This is my class,” he said.

Source: New York Times May 19, 2019 18:33 UTC