Bandcamp donating today’s revenue to NAACP Legal Defense Fund

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Bandcamp, which in recent months has stepped up to support artists affected by the COVID-19 crisis, today is turning its charitable efforts toward the fight for racial justice.

Today, in honor of Juneteenth, the platform will donate 100% of its share of music sales to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.

In addition, Bandcamp has compiled a list of artists and labels joining them in the NAACP fundraiser. (The list includes Björk, whose entire catalog is on the platform, and the labels 4AD, Domino, Dead Oceans, Father/Daughter, Ghostly International, Hopeless, Matador, Loma Vista, Mom + Pop, Sub Pop, Rough Trade, Partisan and Yep Roc, among others).

In their announcement, Bandcamp said:

The recent killings of George Floyd, Tony McDade, Sean Reed, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and the ongoing state-sanctioned violence against black people in the US and around the world are horrific tragedies. We stand with those rightfully demanding justice, equality and change, and people of color everywhere who live with racism every single day, including many of our fellow employees and artists and fans in the Bandcamp community.

So this Juneteenth and every Juneteenth hereafter, for any purchase you make on Bandcamp, we will be donating 100% of our share of sales to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, a national organization that has a long history of effectively enacting racial justice and change through litigation, advocacy and public education. We’re also allocating an additional $30,000 per year to partner with organizations that fight for racial justice and create opportunities for people of color.

The current moment is part of a long-standing, widespread and entrenched system of structural oppression of people of color, and real progress requires a sustained and sincere commitment to political, social and economic racial justice and change. We’ll continue to promote diversity and opportunity through our mission to support artists, the products we build to empower them, who we promote through the Bandcamp Daily, our relationships with local artists and organizations through our Oakland space, how we operate as a team and who and how we hire.