This is how they keep the revolution going.
Via Mic:
Jay Z’s global music and entertainment platform Tidal in association with Roc Nation is donating $1.5 million to Black Lives Matter and several other local and national social justice organizations, Tidal announced exclusively to Mic on Friday — the same day Trayvon Martin would have turned 21-years-old. The streaming service raised the $1.5 million at the first Tidal X: 10/20 charity concert in Brooklyn, New York, featuring Beyoncé, Nicki Minaj, Jay Z, Lil Wayne and Nick Jonas.
Tidal’s group of artist owners, which includes several of the musicians who performed in October’s sold-out show including Beyoncé, Nicki Minaj and Jay Z, took part in deciding which organizations would receive funding, the streaming service told Mic. The majority of the groups to benefit are social justice activist groups and organizations, with a large portion of these specifically committed to ensuring the nation understands that black lives matter.
Tidal’s grants will be administered through the New World Foundation, which funds several civil rights groups and social movements. The nonprofits Tidal will fund include Opportunity Agenda, Hands Up United, Sankofa.Org, as well as local organizing groups in California: Community Coalition; Florida: Dream Defenders; Illinois: Black Youth Project; Maryland: Baltimore Justice Fund; Empowerment Development Corporation; New York: Million Hoodies; NY Justice League and Ohio: Ohio Students Association/Organizing Collaborative.
According to Tidal, donations will also be given to organizations created by the families of victims of police brutality, including the Trayvon Martin Foundation, the Michael O.D. Brown We Love Ours Sons and Daughters Foundation and the Oscar Grant Foundation.
What is the New World Foundation about? Here’s a summary of one of their funds.
New Majority Fund: According to NWF, “The 21st century has begun with … [America’s] national power in the hands of militant conservatives, the country isolated from the rest of the world, and the planet itself in the balance. This is a troubled and reactionary time, when we must choose whether to concede or to rebuild a progressive vision of America.” To help reduce the political and social influence of conservatives, this Fund provides financial support for leftist organizations that are “building the infrastructure for political participation out of which new electoral alliances are forming, and in turn, new majorities can grow and govern.”
Here they are tweeting about revolution with Usher and Harry Belafonte:
Promoting the Black Panthers:
You can see more about them here. Oh, just an aside. Guess who was chair from 1982 to 1988? Hillary Clinton.