American online music company Bandcamp is to donate 100% of their profits for one day to support “racial justice, equality and change”. Dipto Paul Reports.
The online site will donate the amount to NAACP’s (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) Legal Defense Fund on June 17.
Inspired by ongoing worldwide strikes where everyone wants justice for George Floyd’s death and change, the platform’s co-founder Ethan Diamond said: “The recent killings of George Floyd, Tony McDade, Sean Reed, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and the ongoing state-sanctioned violence against black people in the US and around the world are horrific tragedies.”
NAACP Legal Defense Fund works to secure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights in order to eliminate race-based discrimination.
Beside this Bandcamp will also spend $30,000 per year to create opportunities for people of colour in a partnership program with racial justice organizations
“We’ll continue to promote diversity and opportunity through our mission to support artists, the products we build to empower them, who we promote through the Bandcamp Daily, our relationships with local artists and organizations through our Oakland space, how we operate as a team, and who and how we hire,” continues Diamond.
Bandcamp has also previously donated all their profits for a day to the ACLU for showing support after Donald Trump’s travel ban on a number of Muslim countries in 2017.