Oprah Just Matched George and Amal Clooney, Donates $500,000 to Parkland Survivors’ March for Our Lives

Oprah Winfrey made good on her reputation as one of Hollywood’s most generous figures on Tuesday afternoon, matching George and Amal Clooney’s $500,000 donation and pledge of support for March for Our Lives, a gun control demonstration led by survivors of the Parkland, Florida, high school shooting in partnership with Everytown for Gun Safety. On Twitter, Winfrey compared the Stoneman Douglas student organizers Cameron Kasky, Emma Gonzalez, David Hogg, Alex Wind, and Jaclyn Corin to the Freedom Riders of the 1960s who “also said we’ve had enough and our voices will be heard.”

Hollywood producer Jeffrey Katzenberg and his wife, Marilyn, also said that they would match the Clooneys’ efforts. “Marilyn and I are proud to stand with the brave young leaders from Parkland, Florida, who have taken their pain and grief and turned it into action,” Katzenberg said in a statement. “We will join Amal and George Clooney . . . to stand alongside these remarkable young people. We are also donating $500,000 to March for Our Lives to support this historic event.”