Ballerific Charity: Tidal Donates $1.5 Million To Black Lives Matter Movement

Jay Z’s music streaming service, TIDAL, is donating $1.5 million to Black Lives Matter, as well as other local and national social justice groups, according to MIC.

Tidal, in association with Roc Nation, announced Friday — the same day Trayvon Martin would have turned 21-years-old that the donation funds came from the October Tidal X: 10/20  charity concert in Brooklyn featuring Beyoncé, Nicki Minaj, Jay Z, Lil Wayne and Nick Jonas.

Several of Tidal’s artist owners decided which organizations would receive funding. The majority of the groups to get assistance are social justice activist groups and organizations. Much of these groups are determined to get America to understand the importance of Black Lives Matter.

Tidal’s grants will be administered through the New World Foundation , which funds several civil rights groups and social movements. The nonprofits Tidal will fund include Opportunity Agenda, Hands Up United, Sankofa.Org, as well as local organizing groups in California: Community Coalition; Florida: Dream Defenders; Illinois: Black Youth Project; Maryland: Baltimore Justice Fund; Empowerment Development Corporation; New York: Million Hoodies; NY Justice League and Ohio: Ohio Students Association/Organizing Collaborative. 

Tidal said donations will be given to organizations created by the families who dealt with police brutality, including the Trayvon Martin Foundation, the Michael O.D. Brown We Love Ours Sons and Daughters Foundation and the Oscar Grant Foundation.