Wilson Chapman editorTyler Perry announced a donation for $500,000 to the Apollo Theater during the venue’s annual spring benefit gala on Monday.Perry made the announcement during his acceptance speech for the organization’s Impact Award. Perry was presented the award by Whoopi Goldberg.“My studio [in Georgia] was once a former Confederate-owned army base where there were 3.9 million negroes and slaves at the time, and there were Confederate soldiers plotting and planning how to keep them enslaved,” Perry said.