Spike Lee announced yesterday that a group of prominent blacks had donated an undisclosed amount of money to help complete work on his forthcoming film, "Malcolm X". He said the donors were Bill Cosby, Oprah Winfrey, Michael Jordan, Earvin (Magic) Johnson, Janet Jackson, Prince, and Peggy Cooper Cafritz, founder of the Duke Ellington School of the Arts in Washington.
Country music star Clint Black is donating his time to perform a concert after the walk that will be broadcast to troops overseas.
His arts patronage included establishing prizes for New York's black artists, donating cash and paintings to various civic museums, financing an American tour of the Moscow Arts Theatre, helping build the New Theatre in New York, and supporting restoration of the Parthenon in Athens.
Learn more, identify a black roof, donate or volunteer by visiting the White Roof Project at www.whiteroofproject.com.
Madonna, the Backstreet Boys, Janet Jackson and the Black Crowes have donated concert proceeds to relief funds.
Mr. Petersen recently donated Black Point to the state of Wisconsin, which will turn the property into a house museum.
"Zambezi" (1959), one of the artist's 23 black paintings, was donated by Mary Margaret and Harry W. Anderson, Bay Area residents who have been longtime supporters of the museum.
A donated black granite headstone that identifies Mr. Wood as the first chief of the Secret Service, the commandant of the Old Capitol Prison and a veteran of the Civil War and the Mexican War, will be dedicated on Wednesday, the traditional Memorial Day, at a ceremony attended by the current director and former ones, retired agents and other Washington officials.
South Africa's first black billionaire, Patrice Motsepe, donated $1m £620,0000) to Guinea.
On Wednesday, South Africa's first black billionaire, Patrice Motsepe, donated $1m £620,0000) to Guinea to help the country fight Ebola.
Eliot Noyes donated Black Beast to MOMA decades ago, and it is expected to move to its new permanent home this spring.
