Music superstar, Stormzy has made a pledge in the form of £10 million to organisations, charities and movements in the UK who are tackling racial inequality, justice reform and Black empowerment.
The internationally-renowned multi-award winning grime star said that he will make his donation over the next 10 years.
He said: “We have to fight against the odds of a racist system that is stacked against us and is designed for us to fail from before we are even born”.
The Croydon-born artist, who is of Ghanaian parents, said that he was making the donation to fight racial inequality because “the uncomfortable truth that our country continuously fails to recognise and admit, is that Black people in the UK have been at a constant disadvantage in every aspect of life – simply due to the colour of our skin.
“I’m lucky enough to be in the position I’m in and I’ve heard people often dismiss the idea of racism existing in Britain by saying ‘If the country is so racist how have you become a success?!’ and I reject that with this: I am not the UK’s shining example of what supposedly happens when a Black person works hard.
“There are millions of us. We are not far and few. We have to fight against the odds of a racist system stacked against us and designed for us to fail from before we are even born.
He has also funded Black British students at Cambridge University.
