(CNN) Oprah Winfrey surprised a New Jersey high school Friday night with a pizza party -- and a $500,000 donation to an after-school program. "That's a half a million dollars to encourage you to keep doing what you're doing, because what you're doing is moving in the right direction," Winfrey said in a video principal Akbar Cook posted on Instagram. "I saw what your great principal was doing, and I thought, what can I do?" Winfrey posted a video on Facebook and said she "had to come see" what Cook is doing for students at West High School in Newark. Cook also installed a laundry room at school after students were bullied for having dirty clothes and then missing class, the station said.

Source: CNN May 19, 2019 15:00 UTC