As Black Lives Matter protests continue across the world following George Floyd's murder in Minneapolis last month, Nile Rodgers' We Are Family Foundation has announced a new 'Youth to the Front Fund' – supporting young BIPOC activists.

According to a statement on the We Are Family Foundation's website, the newly launched "growing six-figure fund" aims to "support and fund under 30-year-old BIPOC youth activists, youth-led organisations, innovations and creative solutions that are at the forefront of fighting systemic racism, inequality, and injustice in the United States and around the world."

The statement goes on to note that the Youth to the Front Fund "is not a one-off response to George Floyd's murder and subsequent global outrage, but rather an ongoing sustainable commitment."

Nile Rodgers also penned a personal message to coincide with the announcement, detailing his own experience with racism through his life.

"As a 12-year-old black child I was threatened at gunpoint by various random policemen and gun-toting whites of all backgrounds when I moved with my family to Los Angeles," he revealed, before noting that four years later, when he was 16, he joined the Black Panther Party in New York.

Rodgers founded the non-profit We Are Family Foundation in 2001, following the 9/11 attacks. Since 2008, the organisation has focused its efforts on "creating programs that promote cultural diversity while nurturing and mentoring the vision, talents and ideas of young people who are positively changing the world."

For more on the Youth to the Front Fund, see here.