Jordan Peele donates $1 million to BLM organizations

Jordan Peele is the latest celebrity making a big difference in the Black Lives Matter movement. The actor-director and his company, Monkeypaw Productions, announced that they have committed a million dollars to the ongoing fight to end systemic racism and intolerance, splitting up that funding among five notable organizations.In a statement shared on social media, Monkeypaw revealed they are “proud to donate $1 million across five organizations we see as essential to the health and lives of Black people. We are committed to continued action against a system rooted in the violence against and oppression of the Black community.”

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— Jordan Peele (@JordanPeele) June 10, 2020

The five organizations include Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective, a group of advocates committed to the emotional and mental health and healing of Black communities; and Fair Fight, an organization that promotes fair elections in Georgia and around the country while educating voters about their voting rights. Black Lives Matter, Equal Justice Initiative and Transgender Gender-Variant & Intersex Justice Project also received donations.

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— BEAM (@_beamorg) June 10, 2020

Since Peele wrapped his beloved Comedy Central sketch series Key & Peele in 2015, he’s been focusing on directorial and producing efforts, opening up the conversation for Black representation in film—specifically within the horror genre through projects like Us and Get Out. In 2017 he called the latter flick the movie that “Black audiences need” and “what white audiences will be watching” during a conversation at the Film Independent Forum. His work has helped popularize the term social thriller for a genre of film that combined suspense with social commentary.

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— Jordan Peele (@JordanPeele) June 8, 2020

“Black people would recognize [the] fear — it’s part of the black identity and the horror [in] America,” said Peele, as per Deadline. “There are things we are cognizant of because we have to be. For white audiences, they see how it is to be a black man in a suburban neighbourhood at night.”Peele isn’t the only celeb opening up his pockets following the call for justice after George Floyd’s killing on May 25. On June 9, WWE star and actor John Cena revealed he had also contributed $1 million to Black Lives Matter, which he matched in response to the $1 million that BTS donated (and the $1 million that their fanbase, ARMY, subsequently raised).[video_embed id='1973294']RELATED: The BTS Army matches the boy band's $1 million donation to the BLM movement[/video_embed]