Activist and Oscar winner Angelina Jolie turns 45 and she donated $200,000 to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund ahead of her birthday on Thursday. The Maleficent actor celebrated her 45th birthday over zoom call with friends and colleagues with her kids: Maddox, 18, Pax, 16, Zahara, 15, Shiloh, 14, and 11-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne.
“Rights don’t belong to any one group to give to another. Discrimination and impunity cannot be tolerated, explained away or justified. I hope we can come together as Americans to address the deep structural wrongs in our society,”. She further added “I stand with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in their fight for racial equality, social justice, and their call for urgent legislative reform.”
The killing of George Floyd, spurred a worldwide protests against police brutality, and mostly racism. Angelina has always given a helping hands to needy people in rough situations. She has been actively reaching out to people amidst COVID-19 pandemic, around the world.
Angelina, whi got involved with No Kid Hungry shares that after she joined them after she realised the scope of the situation in America. She has always been an advocate to refugees around the world for years as a special envoy to the UNHCR.
“I knew that there were problems in America, that there was poverty, but I could not believe when I realized how many school children in America were dependent on a meal to not go hungry,” she said on the call. “I was so disgusted that we have gotten to this point as a country and that we would let the most vulnerable be in such a state. I can’t imagine what it feels like for those parents.”
