{"id":10627,"date":"2011-10-13T15:36:56","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T19:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=10627"},"modified":"2011-10-13T14:32:17","modified_gmt":"2011-10-13T18:32:17","slug":"denzel-washington-donates-2-5-million-to-alma-mater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=10627","title":{"rendered":"Denzel Washington Donates $2.5 Million To Alma Mater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NEW YORK<\/strong>\u2014 <strong>Denzel Washington<\/strong> has donated $2.25 million to Fordham University, his alma mater.<\/p>\n<p>The university said Monday that <strong>Washington<\/strong> has given $2 million to endow the Denzel Washington Chair in Theatre, and another $250,000 to establish a scholarship for a minority undergraduate student studying theater at Fordham.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Phylicia Rashad<\/strong>, who played <strong>Clair Huxtable<\/strong> on\u00a0<em>The Cosby Show<\/em>, has joined the school\u2019s faculty as the first Denzel Washington Chair in Theatre. <strong>Washington<\/strong> cited the late <strong>Bob Stone<\/strong>, who was a theater professor at Fordham, for inspiring him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK\u2014 Denzel Washington has donated $2.25 million to Fordham University, his alma mater. The university said Monday that Washington has given $2 million to endow the Denzel Washington Chair in Theatre, and another $250,000 to establish a scholarship for a minority undergraduate student studying theater at Fordham. Phylicia Rashad, who played Clair Huxtable on\u00a0The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}