Bandcamp, Much-Loved Indie Music Marketplace, Launches A Juneteenth Tradition

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Bandcamp — the online music marketplace used by tens of thousands of independent artists and labels — has announced that it will donate its cut of sales on Juneteenth to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund every year.

Bandcamp has pledged to donate its cut of sales made on this and every subsequent Juneteenth holiday to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.Guillaume Payen/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

Bandcamp has pledged to donate its cut of sales made on this and every subsequent Juneteenth holiday to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.Bandcamp, the online music marketplace used by tens of thousands of independent artists and labels, has once again announced plans to donate its cut of one day's sales to a progressive cause, this time adding an annual commitment.

This year's sales event, which runs from 12 a.m. Friday through midnight that evening, will be bolstered by the

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It would have been great if they out front advertised a way for their artists to offer their own cut to BLM or the NAACP DF. As it is, we have to go in mand change our prices for awhile.

The emancipation was enacted into law two and a half years prior. Juneteenth is when it was announced in Texas. Nevertheless, good on Bandcamp for their generosity.

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