Jordan Peele donates $1 million across five organizations devoted to helping the black community

Jordan Peele is doing his part to help the black community, announcing a $1 million donation to black organizations.

The 41-year-old Get Out director retweeted a post from his production company Monkeypaw Productions on Wednesday, which announced the donations.

The funds will be split between five organizations Peele and his company singled out as being ‘essential’ to the black community.

‘Jordan Peele and Monkeypaw Productions are proud to donate $1 million across five organizations we see as essential to the health and lives of Black people,’ the statement began.

‘We are committed to continued action against a system rooted in the violence against and the oppression of the Black community,’ they continued.

‘Below are the organizations we are proud to support: Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective, Black Lives Matter, Equal Justice Initiative, Fair Fight and Transgender Gender-Variant and Intersex Justice Project,’ the statement ended.

Peele’s donation comes just days after he showed his support for Star Wars actor John Boyega, who spoke up at a London rally after George Floyd’s death.

Boyega, who played Finn in the most recent Star Wars trilogy, said he wasn’t sure if he was ‘gonna have a career after this,’ but dozens, if not hundreds, of actors, filmmakers and even LucasFilm itself stood by his side.

Peele showed his support by quote-retweeting photos of him at the rally, simply stating, ‘We got you, John.’

Peele also took to Twitter last week to show his support for actress and The Talk co-host Keke Palmer, for speaking up to the National Guard at a Black Lives Matter protest in Los Angeles.

Palmer was seen passionately trying to get members of the National Guard to march with them in a video that went viral.

Peele responded by quote-retweeting a tweet with the video footage, adding, ‘Your move, Bone Spurs.’ 

Peele first started his career as an actor and comedian, but he made history with his blockbuster thriller Get Out.

He was the first black writer to win the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay, and its $176 million domestic gross made it the highest-grossing movie by a black director, though that record was later broken by F. Gary Gray’s The Fate of the Furious.

Peele also developed and narrated CBS All Access’ The Twilight Zone, wrote the script for the upcoming Candyman movie and co-created HBO’s upcoming Lovecraft Country, which debuts in August.