A rep for Kanye West announced Thursday the rap star is donating $2 million U.S. to charities supporting the families of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor.
West has also reportedly set up a fund to cover the college tuition for Floyd’s 6-year-old daughter Gianna and is helping to cover legal costs for the families of Arbery and Taylor.
Floyd died after a Minneapolis police officer pinned him to the pavement with his knee on his neck; Arbery was shot and killed by vigilantes on a Georgia street; and Taylor was killed by police who burst into her Kentucky home.
The rapper’s rep also said West will donate cash to help black-owned businesses in his native Chicago that have been impacted by the civil unrest in the past week.
Details on exactly where the cash is going were not immediately provided.
During a Hurricane Katrina fundraising special 15 years ago, West famously ad-libbed: “George Bush doesn’t care about black people.” More recently, though, he has publicly supported the presidency of Donald Trump.
At one of his Sunday Service performances last October, West said: "They try to tell me because of my colour who I'm supposed to pick as the president. 'You're black, so you can't like Trump.’ I ain't never made a decision only based off my colour. That's a form of slavery, mental slavery."