New Orleans Pelicans star Jrue Holiday has announced he is donating his salary for the rest of the NBA 2019-2020 season to help launch a social justice fund.
Holiday posted on Instagram, along with the logo to The Jrue and Lauren Holiday Social Justice Impact Fund, a collaboration with his wife and former U.S. women's soccer team player Lauren Holiday: "Today we announced that I have pledged the remainder of my 2020 NBA salary as a progressive step toward combating systemic racism as well as social and economic inequality that continues to prevent Black communities from upward mobility."
Reports suggest that the fund will assist "Black-led nonprofits, programs and institutions of higher learning" in New Orleans, as well as the Los Angeles area and Indianapolis, where Jrue Holiday and Lauren Holiday are from, respectively.