User:J'Mill Wins/15PP section in Aurora James article

The 15 Percent Pledge
In 2020, in the wake of the killing of George Floyd and the wave of Black Lives Matter activism that followed, James launched an initiative called the 15 Percent Pledge, with an Instagram post on May 29 that Vogue writes "immediately went viral and resulted in an outpouring of interest." The 15 Percent Pledge Foundation was then created as a non-profit organization to urge major retailers to commit 15% of their shelf-space to Black-owned businesses. The Foundation offers large corporations accountability and strategy suggestions as well as consulting services.

TIME Magazine writes that James wanted to "find a way that companies could make a tangible change," and "from there, the 15 Percent Pledge was born." Cam Wolf writes in GQ magazine that "James is careful to note that the 15 Percent Pledge is not the only solution," and that James said, "This is a really tough time for everyone, and people shopping is by no means going to ease the pain of the lives that we have lost...There are also a lot of other things that we need people to be doing, like donating to bail funds."