Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian, husband of celebrity tennis player Serena Williams, announced in a tweet Friday that he has resigned from Reddit’s board and, in light of the ongoing #BlackLivesMatter movement, will pledge future stock gains from Reddit to serve Black communities in the U.S., “chiefly to curb racial hate,” he said.
In the same tweet, Ohanian pledged US$1 million to Know Your Rights Camp, a minority youth-focused civil rights organization created by football player and civil rights activist Colin Kaepernick. Ohanian said he has urged Reddit’s board to…