Jay Z And Beyonce Paid Protesters' Bail

Jay Z and Beyonce have reportedly been using their estimated $1bn fortune to help post bail for people arrested during protests against the police in the US. Dream Hampton, a writer and activist who worked with the rapper on his 2010 memoir Decoded, made the revelations in a series of tweets which were deleted but captured by hip-hop magazine Complex first. "When we needed money for bail for Baltimore protesters, I ... hit Jay up, as I had for Ferguson (and he) wired tens of thousands"