By Ryan Shepard
Feb 8, 2021
The California Black Freedom Fund has set a new goal for the future. The organization is now pushing to raise $100 million from a variety of sponsors. In return, the organization is pledging to use their funds to empower Black-led power-building organizations.
Thus far, the organization has received major funding from both
Priscilla Chan. The couple has invested nearly $35 million into the organization. Building a better future for everyone starts with centering those who have been politically, socially, and economically marginalized, Chan said. We support the California Black Freedom Fund and its work to ensure that Black-led organizations and movements have the power, resources, and recognition to continue their missions and make racial equity a reality in California.
A Black Lives Matter protest in London in July. More than 260 towns and cities held protests in June and July â from Monmouth in south Wales to Shetland in Scotland. Photograph: Guy Bell/Rex/Shutterstock
Black Lives Matter UK will be releasing more than £100,000 to black-led organisations across the country by the end of the month, as protesters pledge to build on last yearâs anti-racism demonstrations.
The campaign group received £1.2m in donations via a GoFundMe appeal, following widespread protests last summer.
It registered as a community benefit society in September under the name Black Liberation Movement UK, which it had to do before it could receive the donations.
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Sputnik International
by Bethany Rielly
PRESSURE is mounting on the Metropolitan Police to sack a police officer filmed punching a black teenager outside a school in north London.
The circulation of the video on social media sparked outrage last week, prompting protests last Friday.
The Met claimed that three officers were injured after a 16-year-old was detained during a stop and search outside a school in Haringey on December 8.
In a statement on December 11, police said that they circled the teenager after a crowd gathered. Four 16-year-olds were arrested during the incident and released on bail.
Local activists in Tottenham today disputed the Met’s version of events, condemning claims that officers were injured as “pure fiction.”
Those who denounce the left as easily offended ‘snowflakes’ who revel in victimhood are the most guilty of such behaviour, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones