{"id":977210,"date":"2020-06-01T14:40:40","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T20:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=1008587"},"modified":"2020-06-01T14:40:40","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T20:40:40","slug":"bandcamp-to-donate-all-sales-to-naacp-legal-defense-fund-on-juneteenth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/bandcamp-to-donate-all-sales-to-naacp-legal-defense-fund-on-juneteenth\/","title":{"rendered":"Bandcamp to Donate All Sales to NAACP Legal Defense Fund on Juneteenth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/bandcamp-donations.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/bandcamp\/\">Bandcamp<\/a> will be donating 100 percent of its revenue on Juneteenth (June 19th) to the NAACP in solidarity with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/george-floyd-protests\/\">recent protests<\/a> against police racism and brutality. CEO Ethan Diamond made the announcement on Monday, adding that Bandcamp would repeat the practice annually.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe recent killings of George Floyd, Tony McDade, Sean Reed, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and the ongoing state-sanctioned violence against black people in the U.S. and around the world are horrific tragedies,\u201d Diamond wrote. \u201cWe 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Juneteenth is recognized as the date of emancipation \u2014 June 19th, 1865 \u2014 for the last remaining enslaved African Americans in the Confederacy, two and a half years after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the proceeds from June 19th, Bandcamp will be allocating an additional $30,000 per year \u201cto partner with organizations that fight for racial justice and create opportunities for people of color,\u201d Diamond added.<\/p>\n<p>In support of artists during the COVID-19 pandemic, Bandcamp has also been dedicating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/bandcamp-friday-support-artists-by-buying-this-music-992293\/\">the first Friday of every month<\/a> to waiving their revenue shares. The next such date is this Friday, June 5th.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3>Popular on Rolling Stone<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/bandcamp-naacp-juneteenth-1008587\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bandcamp will be donating 100 percent of its revenue on Juneteenth (June 19th) to the NAACP in solidarity with recent protests against police racism and brutality. CEO Ethan Diamond made the announcement on Monday, adding that Bandcamp would repeat the practice annually. \u201cThe recent killings of George Floyd, Tony McDade, Sean Reed, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-977210","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-06 11:46:26","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=977210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=977210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=977210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=977210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}