Jada Pinkett Smith Helps Out
December 18th 2006 03:40
Jada
"Jada Pinkett Smith has donated $1 million to the Baltimore School for the Arts, asking that its new theater be dedicated to classmate Tupac Shakur, who was shot and killed in 1996. The 35-year-old actress graduated from the high school in 1989.
'It means a lot when you're a teacher and your most famous alumnus comes back to give a donation,' said Donald Hicken, head of the school's theater department since its founding in 1980 and Pinkett Smith's former theater teacher. 'It really says a lot to the community that the school matters in people's lives.'
The donation from the Will and Jada Smith Family Foundation, which is based in Baltimore, will be used for renovation and expansion. The school, which announced the donation Monday, said it will name its new theater for Pinkett Smith.
Pinkett Smith wanted the theater named for Shakur because of the friendship they developed at the school. The rapper died after a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas."
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