Monday Starter: Barkley donating $1 million to New Orleans Catholic academy

June 3, 2024 | Global Sisters Report

By CHRIS HERLINGER and DAN STOCKMAN

Global Sisters Report

Former NBA star Charles Barkley is donating $1 million to St. Mary’s Academy in New Orleans, a prominent Black Catholic school founded by the Sisters of the Holy Family, an African American congregation, because he was inspired by the work of two academy graduates who discovered what many said was an impossible mathematics proof.

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