Bad Robot Pledges $10M Donation to Organizations With "Anti-Racist Agendas"

Taylor Swift has promised fans she will be a ferocious anti-racist moving forward as part of a statement released to mark America’s Juneteenth.The singer made her pledge in honour of the 155th anniversary of the full emancipation of all African-American slaves, insisting she has changed her life forever as a result of the Black Lives Matter movement for racial justice.

Online music service Bandcamp is celebrating Juneteenth and honoring the Black Lives Matter movement by donating 100 percent of its music sale profits to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.

Taylor Swift has promised to be “loudly and ferociously anti-racist” going forward and to “not let privilege lie dormant”.The pop star made the pledge earlier today (June 19) as an acknowledgement of Juneteenth, which marks the end of slavery in the US.After sharing a video from the publication The Root explaining why Juneteenth should be a national holiday in the States, Swift said that she would be giving all of her employees the day off “in honour of Freedom Day from now on”.

Taylor Swift is taking Friday (June 19) off to celebrate Juneteenth and rededicate herself to learning and listening. In a series of early morning tweets, Swift thanked the site The Root for letting her repost a video explaining why the annual celebration of the end of slavery should be a national holiday.

Alexisonfire have revealed that they are donating the earnings from their new single ‘Complicit’ to various anti-racist organisations.The Canadian band decided to take action after mass protests calling out racism have taken place across the US and all over the world following the death of George Floyd.Floyd, an African-American man, was killed last month in Minneapolis when a white police officer knelt on his neck for almost nine minutes as he lay on the ground during an

Stormzy has pledged to donate a total of £10million to organisations, charities and movements that are committed to fighting racial inequality, justice reform and black empowerment within the UK.The 26 year old has released a statement amid the global outrage following the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man who was killed at the hands of police officers in America.

Gordon Cox Theater Editor“The thing that’s right is to get the theater industry’s collective knee off of the throats and off of the bodies of Black, indigenous and POC people. And it can’t be through these diversity initiatives.

Rutherglen Central and North, if you are black, or from another ethnic minority, please reach out to me.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterKrishnendu Majumdar, the newly-appointed chair of UK awards body BAFTA, has sent a letter to the org’s membership addressing the killing of George Floyd and the voting org’s record on diversity.In the letter, he expresses solitary for the Black Lives Matter protests that have sprung up around the globe since Floyd’s death, and vows that the organization will do better after the hefty criticism it received over its record on diversity following the

This historical film is another one of DuVernay’s projects, and it’s a powerful depiction of Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1965 marches from Selma, Alabama to the state’s capital in Montgomery.

In light of the protests happening right now, I've been turning to anti-racist podcasts and videos for more information, context, and clarity. What I haven't been doing is asking my Black friends and coworkers to help me on this quest for knowledge, because it's not on them to educate me.

Kristen Bell doesn’t care how her daughters identify sexually, or what choices they make in their careers as they grow up – as long as she raises them to be anti-racist.

JJ Abrams and Katie McGrath, through Abrams’ production company Bad Robot, are pledging $10 million to organizations like Black Lives Matter LA.

JJ Abrams, his wife Katie McGrath, and his production company Bad Robot are committing $10 million to anti-racist agendas over the next five years.

JJ Abrams’ Bad Robot, along with he and his wife’s foundation, pledged a $10 million donation over the next five years to groups and agendas that combat racism.