New Delhi, Sept. 5 -- Amazon boss Jeff Bezos' ex-wife MacKenzie Scott, one of the biggest names in philanthropy, set a new record of donations earlier this year by gifting over $1 million to Historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs).

Fortune reported this week that Scott's $42 million donations to Elizabeth City State University on the school's Founders Day in North Carolina pushed her total giving to HBCUs well past the $1 billion mark.

And that's just part of the billionaire philanthropist's $26 billion philanthropic commitment since 2020, in which she's donated to thousands of organisations focused on DEI, disaster recovery, community development, health, and environmental causes.

Scott is worth an estimated $37 billion, ...