The leaders of Black Lives Matter will have to explain themselves when it was revealed that the group bought $6 million in cash for a 6,500-square-foot, seven-bedroom Los Angeles property.
According to Sean Campbell of New York Magazine, the mansion was featured in the background of a YouTube video that featured Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation (BLMGNF) co-founders Patrisse Cullors and Alicia Garza, as well as Black Lives Matter Los Angeles founder Melina Abdullah, discussing their activism on the first anniversary of George Floyd’s death.
According to New York Magazine, the co-founder of the national Black Lives Matter movement was responding to claims that she used BLMGNF donor cash to help pay for new residences she bought for $3.2 million in Los Angeles and Georgia.
Two weeks after BLMGNF received $66.5 million in contributions in October of 2020, Dyane Pascall bought the property that would become known as “Campus” for $6 million in cash, New York Magazine reported.
According to BLMGNF board member Shalomyah Bowers, the property was purchased with the goal of serving as “living and studio space” for beneficiaries of the Black Joy Creators Fellowship.
The foundation had “always planned” to make the home’s legal files public in May, and it isn’t used as a personal residence, according to Bowers.
According to the study, the statement did not explain why so little content has been produced there in the past 17 months if it was intended to be a creative area.
According to one nonprofit expert, the sheer amount of the purchase could lead to greater criticism of BLM’s lack of openness.
BLMGNF raised more than $90 million in 2020 and had $60 million left in hand as of February of 2021, the New York Post reported.
