Amazon founder Jeff Bezos donates $138 million to charity

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The donation is being made to the Obama Foundation in honour of Congressman John Lewis. 9News

is donating $US 100 million to the Obama Foundation in honour of Congressman John Lewis, a hero of the US civil rights movement of the 1960s who died last year, the foundation said on Monday.

A protégé of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr., Lewis led sit-ins to integrate all-white lunch counters, was one of the original "Freedom Riders" who integrated buses, and endured beatings by white police and mobs.Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and former CEO, has honoured the cause of US civil rights fighters.Already massively wealthy, America's billionaires saw their collective fortunes soar more than 70 per cent to more than $US 5 trillion during the pandemic.

Their windfall came at the same time as COVID-19 wreaked financial havoc on tens of millions of Americans, particularly those in the lower-income tiers.

 

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