Jrue Holiday to donate game check to black business and charity

Jrue Holiday announced that his game checks for the remainder of the regular seasons will be donated to charity and black-owned businesses.  

Earlier this week, New Orleans Pelicans made an announcement that Jrue Holiday would be donating the remainder of his game check to charity and black-owned businesses. According to Pelicans the game check is about $5.3 million and would go to “a variety of charities across the country, including black-owned businesses,”

Since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic in the United States in March, report revealed that black owned businesses are the worst hit. 

In fact, statistics revealed that due to the effect of the pandemic more than 40% of black owned businesses are threatened with permanent closure if nothing is done to alleviate their situation. In addition to this,  black business owners are finding it very difficult to benefit from federal government loans such as the PPP. This, coupled with the movement against the inhumanity suffered by blacks in the United States made a lot of supporters raise up to the plight of blacks, especially black, -owned businesses.  

Among the supporters is Jrue Holiday who recently announced that he will be donating his remaining game check for the regular season to black-owned business and charity.