The Luther Vandross Foundation was created to provide financial help to students attending HBCUs and to continue the legendary singer’s commitment to helping students graduate

Luther Vandross, who died in 2005, was one of the greatest singers of a generation. What many may not know is that Vandross was also passionate about giving back to historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). The Luther Vandross Foundation was created to provide financial help to students attending HBCUs and to continue the legendary singer’s commitment to helping students graduate. Rolling out spoke exclusively to the Luther Vandross Foundation’s president and CEO Brenda Shields, who is the first cousin of Vandross, about their second annual fundraiser and the inspiration to create the foundation.

“I was very close to his mother, and I was the executor of her estate and one of the things that she wanted to do was to carry on Luther’s mission, and that was to support HBCUs,” Shields says of the 501 (C) (3) nonprofit/

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