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Saturday, October 18, 2025

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Saturday, October 18, 2025

$5 million gift to Morehouse College slated for MLK Jr International Chapel renovations

mlk chapelMorehouse College has received a significant gift — financially and symbolically — from the Robert W. Woodruff Foundation.

The $5 million will go toward renovating the historically black college’s Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel — the spiritual heart of Morehouse College.

The chapel was built as a “World House” of unity and peace to promote the optimum human conditions by creating genuine community and global excellence based on a Hindu-Buddhist-Islamic-Judaic-Christian love — in the name of the college’s most famous graduate — civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.

For John Wilson, who became president of Morehouse on Jan. 28, 2013, the gift is particularly “poetic” on several levels.

“When I graduated from Morehouse in 1979, we were the first class to graduate in the King Chapel,” Wilson said of the building that opened in 1978 and now needs $7 million in upgrades to make it a “world-class” facility.

See more at: Saporta Report