Black Lives Matter grassroots chapters sue global foundation over funds
Source: The Guardian
Black Lives Matter grassroots chapters sue global foundation over funds
Coalition sues foundation, alleging mismanagement: ‘The assets that we built are under control of consultants’
Sam Levin in Los Angeles
@SamTLevin
Fri 2 Sep 2022 21.30 BST
First published on Fri 2 Sep 2022 20.29 BST
A coalition of Black Lives Matter chapters has filed a lawsuit against the BLM Global Network Foundation, a non-profit organization that grew out of the protest movement, accusing the foundation of defrauding the local activist groups.
The complaint was filed on Thursday by BLM Grassroots, an entity made up of 26 BLM chapters in the US, UK and Canada.
The local organizers allege that the foundation, which has been a clearinghouse for donations to support BLM over the years, has fundraised off the work of the chapters, but mismanaged the funds and had shut local chapters out of decision making.
The grassroots group, which includes BLM chapters in Los Angeles, Michigan, Atlanta and Boston, also alleges that the foundation, which runs blacklivesmatter.com, has locked them out of the main BLM social media accounts.
And it alleges that the foundation isn’t abiding by a plan laid out by the BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors when she resigned last year to wind down the foundation and transition resources to BLM Grassroots.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/02/black-lives-matter-grassroots-lawsuit-global-foundation
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Related: Lawsuit accuses Black Lives Matter head of syphoning more than $10 million from donors (Courthouse News Service)
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