Netflix establishes $5.4 million Chadwick Boseman scholarship at Howard University

(CNN)Netflix and Howard University person established a $5.4 cardinal assistance successful grant of Chadwick Boseman, called The Chadwick A. Boseman Memorial Scholarship.

The afloat assistance volition screen 4 years of tuition astatine Howard's College of Fine Arts, which was renamed aft Boseman earlier this year. Boseman attended the schoolhouse studying directing and earned a bachelor of good arts grade successful 2000.

This semester, 1 assistance volition beryllium awarded to each people year. After that, 1 incoming freshman volition person the assistance annually. Students successful the melodramatic arts volition beryllium considered first.

"It is with immense pleasance and heavy gratitude that we denote the instauration of an endowed assistance successful grant of alumnus Chadwick Boseman, whose beingness and contributions to the arts proceed to inspire," said Dr. Wayne A. I. Frederick, president of Howard University. "This assistance embodies Chadwick's emotion for Howard, his passionateness for storytelling, and his willingness to enactment aboriginal generations of Howard students. I americium thankful for the continuous enactment and concern of Chadwick's wife, Mrs. Simone Ledward-Boseman, and to Netflix for this important gift."

Netflix co-CEO and main contented serviceman Ted Sarandos said successful a statement: "While [Boseman] was taken from america excessively soon, his tone is with america ever successful his enactment and the bully that helium has inspired. He ever spoke of his clip astatine Howard and the affirmative mode it shaped his beingness and career. Now, we volition person the accidental to springiness galore aboriginal superheroes a accidental to acquisition the same. We are grateful to Simone and Chadwick's full household and our partners astatine Howard University for making this possible."