{"id":15004,"date":"2020-06-07T12:09:53","date_gmt":"2020-06-07T07:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=15004"},"modified":"2020-06-07T12:13:36","modified_gmt":"2020-06-07T07:13:36","slug":"nba-legend-jordan-to-donate-100m-for-anti-racism-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/15004","title":{"rendered":"NBA legend Jordan to donate $100M for anti-racism fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ANKARA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>NBA legend Michael Jordan and &#8216;Jordan Brand&#8217; will make a donation of $100 million to nationwide organizations in the US as part of efforts against racism.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Michael Jordan and Jordan Brand are committing $100 million over the next 10 years to protecting and improving the lives of Black people through actions dedicated towards racial equality, social justice and education. #JUMPMAN,&#8221; the ex-Chicago Bulls player&#8217;s brand said on Twitter late Friday.<\/p>\n<p>His firm, Jordan Brand, is a subsidiary of Oregon-based sports wear giant Nike, selling sports apparels, shoes and accessories globally.<\/p>\n<p>The statement came in the backdrop of the killing of a black man, George Floyd, in Minnesota, US at the hands of a white police officer.<\/p>\n<p>Floyd, a 46-year-old African-American, was filmed gasping for air and pleading for breath as Derek Chauvin, a white police officer, kneeled on his neck for nearly nine minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Floyd was killed by &#8220;asphyxiation from sustained pressure,&#8221; an independent autopsy found Monday.<\/p>\n<p>His death sparked protests across the US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANKARA NBA legend Michael Jordan and &#8216;Jordan Brand&#8217; will make a donation of $100 million to nationwide organizations in the US as part of efforts against racism. &#8220;Michael Jordan and Jordan Brand are committing $100 million over the next 10 years to protecting and improving the lives of Black people through actions dedicated towards racial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":15005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1378],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15006,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15004\/revisions\/15006"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}