Angelina Jolie gave back and stuck close to her family as she rang in her 45th birthday.
The activist and Oscar winner donated $200,000 to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund ahead of her birthday on Thursday, which she celebrated with her six 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," Jolie said in a statement. "I stand with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in their fight for racial equality, social justice, and their call for urgent legislative reform."
Since the killing of George Floyd, which spurred worldwide protests against police brutality, Jolie and her kids have been having difficult and necessary conversations about race while isolating together in Los Angeles.
The actress and director has been active since the COVID-19 pandemic spread around the world and has donated to different organizations. Amid the continuing spread, Jolie shared a birthday toast Zoom call with friends and colleagues and spent the day with her kids at home.