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Former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick announced Thursday he has launched the Know Your Rights Camp COVID-19 Relief Fund to help minority communities during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic:
Kaepernick said in the video that he is donating $100,000 of his own money to the cause and is seeking more donations.
"Black and brown communities are being disproportionately devastated by COVID-19 because of hundreds of years of structural racism," he said in the announcement.
There have been more than 640,000 positive COVID-19 cases in the United States through Thursday, leading to over 30,000 deaths, according to CNN.