“We held our first Juneteenth fundraiser last year in response to the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, and the long-standing structural oppression, state-sanctioned violence, and daily racism faced by Black people and people of color, including many of our fellow employees and artists in the Bandcamp community,” CEO Ethan Diamond wrote in a post on the site. Bandcamp’s share of all purchases made on the 18th, from midnight to midnight Pacific time, will go to support the NAACP’s work the rest of each sale, as always, will go toward artists and labels. The independent music platform is repeating that fundraiser this Friday, June 18th, in honor of Juneteenth - the holiday commemorating the end of slavery in Texas in 1865, more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation. Last summer, as protests for racial justice resounded through America’s streets, Bandcamp dedicated a full day of its revenue to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.
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