Skincare brand Sunday Riley announced a donation of $50,000 to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund whilst also promising to work more locally in the brand's hometown of Houston.
Founder, Sunday Riley herself, posted a heartfelt statement alongside the donation:
'George Floyd and I are both from Houston. We actually both went to Lamar High School, though he graduated from Yates. We were separated by time. We weren’t the same age, we weren’t in the same year. But we walked the same hallways, maybe sat in the same classrooms, albeit at different moments in time. We had entirely different lives, different opportunities, and faced different challenges. Had we both been in the exact same situation, at the exact same moment, I think it would have ended differently for me. Actually, I know it would have. That reality pierces me to my core.⠀⠀Being from Houston, as a team, we want to support the black community locally and are looking for meaningful ways that we can support. Hopefully we’ll have something firmed up in the next day or so. But in recognition that this level of discrimination, hatred, and brutality is rampant across the entire United States, yesterday we made a $50,000 donation commitment to the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund. We are limited in our resources, but not in our voice.⠀ ⠀Wishing everyone a peaceful Sunday, but not a forgetful one. 🤎⠀ - Sunday'
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