Support Selena Gomez and PLUS1’s Black Equality Fund as They Fight for Racial Justice
Selena Gomez announced that with the help of the PLUS1 initiative, she created a Black Equality Fund, which will provide funds to the forefront organizations of the Black Lives Matter civil rights movement.
Gomez has almost 62 million followers on Twitter and 181 million followers on Instagram accounts. She has been actively using her platform to amplify Black activists’ voices, whose goal is to fight for the most vulnerable by undoing the systemic racial oppression that is ingrained in our society.
It’s all of our responsibly to fight for equality & justice for the Black community. Silence isn’t an option, let’s all join this fight for equality. https://t.co/3qlCVG5Jh9
— Selena Gomez (@selenagomez) June 24, 2020
PLUS1 is an initiative that brings artists and their avid supporters together through music to work on the world’s current pressuring issues, such as COVID-19 and police brutality. All money donated to the Black Equity Fund will be distributed across organizations, such as the TGI Justice Project, Color of Change, Know Your Rights Camp, Equal Justice Initiative, BU Center for Antiracist Research, and others.
It makes us happy to see a famous pop star use her voice to combat racism directly. Gomez uses real actions to fight racism and the violation of people’s civil rights, not mere words. Therefore, we call on you to support the Black Equity Fund, and as always, to not be silent when you see injustice.
I am an incoming junior at the UCLA College of Letters and Science. Through my love and appreciation for literature, social justice, feminism, public speaking, and writing, I am planning on pursuing a career in immigration and public interest law. I want to help those who are either the victims of the system or discrimination because I wholeheartedly believe that the purpose of my life is to help others and take cases that nobody else is willing to take.
