Fans of the K-pop boy band BTS have raised more than $1 million for Black Lives Matter, the Movement for Black Lives and more than a dozen other civil rights and advocacy organizations, a fan group said on Sunday, as protests against police brutality and systemic racism continued worldwide. Donations accelerated after Variety reported on Saturday that BTS and its record label had made a $1 million donation to Black Lives Matter, according to the fan group. The group rallied BTS fans using the Twitter hashtag #MatchAMillion. Erika Overton, a spokeswoman for the fan group, One in an Army, said that as of Monday afternoon, about $1.3 million had been raised. The donations were split about evenly among the more than a dozen organizations listed on the group’s web page.

Source: New York Times June 08, 2020 17:01 UTC