{"id":217667,"date":"2020-06-07T09:21:30","date_gmt":"2020-06-07T09:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2020\/06\/07\/south-korean-boyband-bts-donates-1-million-to-black-lives-matter\/"},"modified":"2020-06-07T09:21:30","modified_gmt":"2020-06-07T09:21:30","slug":"south-korean-boyband-bts-donates-1-million-to-black-lives-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2020\/06\/07\/south-korean-boyband-bts-donates-1-million-to-black-lives-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korean boyband BTS donates $1 million to Black Lives Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\/old_site\/2020_6$large_boask.jpg><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;Popular South Korean band BTS donated $1 million to Black Lives Matter (BLM) in support of U.S. protests against police brutality, its music label, Big Hit Entertainment, told Reuters on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the seven-member BTS wrote on its Twitter account that they are against racism and violence with the hashtag BlackLivesMatter:<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We stand against racial discrimination. We condemn violence. You, I and we all have the right to be respected. We will stand together.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The hashtag went viral among the K-pop group&rsquo;s fans and started another wave of donations with a new hashtag, MatchAMillion.<\/p>\n<p>The movement encouraged BTS&rsquo; fan base, known as ARMY, an acronym for Adorable Representative MC for Youth, to match the $1 million donation the group made.<\/p>\n<p>One Twitter account said, &ldquo;ARMYs, let&rsquo;s #MatchAMillion with BTS&rsquo;s donation to #BlackLivesMatter!&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The boyband suspended their world tour over coronavirus concerns in April. [nL3N2CG351]<\/p>\n<p>The rolling, global protests reflect rising anger over police treatment of ethnic minorities, sparked by the May 25 killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis after a white officer detaining him knelt on his neck.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(Reuters)<\/p>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korean boyband BTS donates $1 million to Black Lives Matter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[688],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-infotainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}