The Latest Breaking News from Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation

Adidas stops challenging Black Lives Matter 'confusingly similar' three stripes image

Black Lives Matter filed to the trademark three yellow parallel stripes and Adidas opposed the move, in a court filing that was later withdrawn

Daily Mirror · Mar 30, 2023

Adidas really messed up with its BLM logo complaint

We've never seen a brand backpedal so fast.

Creative Bloq · Mar 30, 2023

Adidas withdraws opposition to BLM trademark application

Adidas is withdrawing its challenge to a Black Lives Matter trademark application featuring three parallel stripes, two days after it contested the image with the U.S. Trademark Office

The Independent UK · Mar 29, 2023

Why the Political Grift Won't Stop

What unites Donald Trump, Black Lives Matter, Steve Bannon, and the Lincoln Project? They all got stupid rich by you being big mad.

Reason · Sep 24, 2022

Erika D. Smith: In this Black Lives Matter family feud, we'll get transparency. But at what cost?

On Aug. 30, the venerable Pew Research Center released a report summing up the opinions of Black Americans, specifically our thoughts about racial inequality and the prospects for systemic social change.

Los Angeles Times · Sep 9, 2022

Black Lives Matter leader accused of stealing $10 million from organization, using it as 'personal piggy bank'

LOS ANGELES — The leader of the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation has been accused by former colleagues of stealing more than $10 million in donations from the organization for his own personal use, according to a lawsuit filed in court this week.

Los Angeles Times · Sep 2, 2022

Editorial: Black Lives Matter is a good cause. Gross financial mismanagement is not

A closer inspection of the nonprofit tax form filed by the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation reveals even more unseemly details about the group’s financial mismanagement than previously known. The group came under initial scrutiny after New York Magazine reported that the organization had secretly purchased a $6 million…

St. Louis Post-Dispatch · May 19, 2022

Black Lives Matter founder denies claims movement’s leaders misused millions in donations

In an exclusive interview, Patrisse Cullors, the former leader of the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, tells The Associated Press that neither she nor anyone else in leadership has misused millions of dollars in donations

The Independent UK · May 9, 2022

The AP Interview: BLM's Patrisse Cullors denies wrongdoing

In an exclusive interview, Patrisse Cullors, the former leader of the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, tells The Associated Press that neither she nor anyone else in leadership has misused millions of dollars in donations

The Independent UK · May 9, 2022

Black Lives Matter apologizes after $6M California mansion purchase

‘We apologize for the distress this has caused to our supporters and those who work in service of Black liberation daily,’ BLM says

The Independent UK · Apr 12, 2022