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Sacramento Civil Rights Group Accepts Benevolent Boon from Billionaire

McKenzie Jackson, California Black MediaNovember 10, 2022

In October, the Greater Sacramento Urban League (GSUL) received its biggest donation in the civil rights organization’s 54-year history. Philanthropist, author and the ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, MacKenzie Scott, donated $2.4 million to the local chapter of the National Urban League (NUL) based in central California.

L’Oreal USA Partners with NAACP to Launch Grant Program for Black-owned Small Businesses

NNPA NewswireFebruary 11, 2021

As small businesses in America have been hit the hardest by the economic fallout of the pandemic and Black-owned businesses are shutting down twice as fast as others according to NBER, L’Oréal USA teamed up with the NAACP to identify the most promising Black-owned small businesses and entrepreneurs in the beauty industry that are most in need of investment.