Listen Live
Basketball Mayhem
101.1 The Wiz Featured Video
CLOSE
Uber Drivers Present Petition To Transport For London

Source: Carl Court / Getty

All around the country, businesses are stepping up to the plate to show their support for the black community. Uber Eats is the next addition to companies offering their show of solidarity. They have committed to waiving delivery fee’s to black-owned businesses for the remainder of 2020.

 

CleveScene

Uber stands in solidarity with the Black community and with peaceful protests against the injustice and racism that have plagued our nation for too long,” CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said in an emailed statement. “My hope is that if each of us recommits to doing all we can to counter bigotry wherever we see it, change will follow.”

The app is even making it easier to locate black-owned businesses in users’ delivery areas by offering a prompt when it’s opened.

What’s more, Uber is donating $1 million to the Center for Policing Equity, which works to measure bias in policing, and the Equal Justice Initiative, which aims to end mass incarceration and racial inequality.

“We know this isn’t enough. It won’t be enough until we see true racial justice. But we plan to work day in and day out to improve, learn and grow as a company,” Khosrowshahi said in the email.

“Lastly, let me speak clearly and unequivocally: Black Lives Matter.”

via. CleveScene

Leave a Reply