The students' reactions are priceless.
The students' reactions are priceless.
Text: Tess Garcia
It's every college student's dream to go to school without wondering how they'll pay their tuition. Today, eight deserving students have seen that dream fulfilled by none other than Ms. Beyoncé Knowles-Carter.
Shortly after her momentous Beychella performance, the queen of modern music introduced her second merit scholarship program (her first, the Formation Scholars Program, was announced in the spring of 2017). Called the Homecoming Scholars Award Program, the initiative will fund the educations of students from Historically Black Colleges and Universities. All HBCU students with a 3.5 GPA or above were eligible to apply. Finalists were selected by committees from each school and were eventually narrowed down to the eight names revealed by BeyGOOD, Beyoncé's philanthropic team, earlier today.
Announcing the 2018-2019 Homecoming Scholars. 🎓https://t.co/f1xg9EqlHP pic.twitter.com/ZlzTHFSZ5e
— BEYONCÉ LEGION (@BeyLegion) July 23, 2018
A few of the Homecoming Scholars tweeted out their gratitude, warming the hearts of everyone on the Internet.
YALLL IM A RECIPIENT OF BEYONCÉ’S SCHOLARSHIP😭😭😭
— iamKAM (@iamKamWillis) July 23, 2018
GOD IS GREATTTTT https://t.co/bVvSFiUfj2
Here I am not knowing if gonna make it back to campus. God was working all along 😭
— iamKAM (@iamKamWillis) July 23, 2018
I prayed on this. Waited.
— Allana J. Barefield (@allanabarefield) July 23, 2018
And the dream came true. Thank you @Beyonce and @XULA1925 for believing in me. And thank you to @jemelehill who my essay was about. Thank you for being an inspiration to black female journalists like myself.
Y’ALL I AM A BEYONCÉ RECIPIENT pic.twitter.com/1KEQCUMDHI
Thank you so much! I am so humbled. My Department and my Lab family knows what my journey has been and has supported me this whole way through. This is for #GramFam forreal https://t.co/AxKRcPsp75
— The Cletus Group (@Cletus_RealTalk) July 23, 2018
We're thrilled to see Bey using her platform for good. Not only will these students be able to make their academic dreams a reality, but they have officially attained bragging rights for life.