The North Star with Shaun King

The North Star with Shaun King

I'll never stop raising money for families impacted by racial injustice, police violence, and mass incarceration

In the past 24 hours we raised nearly $80,000 for Myon Burrell, who was wrongly arrested, charged, and convicted when he was a child for a crime he had nothing to do with.

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Shaun King
May 04, 2021
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GoFundMe Screenshot of Myon Burrell

Every single day I see a few dozen people, sometimes a few hundred, or even a few thousand people call me a thief. It’s a lie that was literally started by white supremacists after the murder of Michael Brown when I helped raise over $100,000 for his family. When I say white supremacists, I mean back then it was litera…

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