CHICAGO — Jennifer Hudson and her family have set up a new foundation to assist families that lose someone due to a violent crime.
The announcement comes on the heels of the Oscar-winning star’s mother Darnell Hudson Donerson, brother Jason Hudson and nephew Julian King having been murdered in the last week. The Hudson-King Foundation for Families of Slain Victims has been named in their honor.
“The specific purpose of the Foundation is to care for the needs of families who have lost relatives to a violent crime,” the family said in a statement, according to People. “This encompasses their basic needs of food, clothing and shelter as well as grief counseling.”
Donations to the Hudson-King Foundation can be sent to:
c/o Abrams Garfinkel Margolis Bergson, LLP
Attn: William L. Abrams, Esq.
237 West 35th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10001
Hudson and her family announced the foundation at a vigil held Wednesday night in Chicago. The Rev. Jesse Jackson was among the speakers at the vigil and he told People that the former “American Idol” star and her family “are overwhelmed by the suddenness and the unexpectedness of it all.”
“This family knows triumph, and they also know tragedy,” Jackson told the magazine.
