Jordan and Peele and his Monkeypaw Productions are donating a total of $1 million to Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective, Black Lives Matter, Equal Justice Initiative, Fair Fight, and Transgender Gender-Variant & Intersex Justice Project.
The donation was announced Wednesday via Twitter, with a statement that added, "We are committed to continued action against a system rooted in the violence against and oppression of the Black community."
The announcement comes after two weeks of global protests against police brutality and racial injustice, sparked by the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Peele founded Monkeypaw in 2012, and the company produced both of the writer-director's films: 2017's
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