Grammy-Winning Musician Pharrell Pays Off North Texas HBCU Student's Loan

Channing Hill, who attended Trinity High School in Euless, will enter her senior year debt-free at Howard University

By Valerie Fields Hill - The Dallas Morning News • Published June 19, 2022 • Updated on June 19, 2022 at 9:33 am

Musician and producer Pharrell Williams, who wrote the 2013 blockbuster song “Happy,” made a few college students — including one from North Texas — gleeful Friday by promising to pay off their student loans.

Channing Hill of Bedford was among the five students and recent graduates from historically Black colleges and universities who received the news that their loans would be paid off while they participated in a panel discussion Friday in Washington, D.C., about the personal impact of college-loan debt.