There is new controversy surrounding the collaboration between Jay-Z's Roc Nation and the NFL.
Published 11:43 AM EDT Sep 6, 2019
The Crushers Club received $200,000 from Meek Mill and Rapsody on behalf of the Inspire Change Initiative. Inspire Change is a platform that includes the Player Coalition – run by NFL players that seeks social justice reform and support educational opportunities in low-income areas – along with the NFL and Roc Nation.
The images of Hazelgrove, who is white, with scissors in her hands as she announces she's going to cut the dreadlocks of a black teenager began to circulate hours before a concert by Meek Mill and Rapsody. The free concert was the public kickoff of the Roc Nation-NFL partnership announced last month.Crushers Club’s Twitter account also used the phrase “All Lives Matter,” a term seen as a critique of the Black Lives Matter campaign against police violence.
“Today, the NFL’s #InspireChange ‘social justice’ group is funding & visiting a non-profit that wants to cut off the locks of Chicago Black youth for ‘a better life,’ one Twitter user, @RzstProgramming, wrote. “I’m not going to say we shouldn’t have a law that allows us to wear our hair the way it naturally is, but it’s also sad that in 2019, we have to have one in the first place,” Tiffany Dena Loftin, youth and college director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People told USA TODAY.
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