BLACK LIVES MATTER REST IN POWER CASTRO SERIES

I'm under the impression that this was kind of a leaderless movement, so to speak. And from there, we saw a statement that was released a few weeks ago from local Black Lives Matter chapters calling for accountability and saying that these decisions that were made were done without their consent and without conversation with these local chapters that had been organizing with Black Lives Matter from the beginning.ĬORNISH: Help us understand, though, the infrastructure here.

BLACK LIVES MATTER REST IN POWER CASTRO SERIES

KING: So a series of decisions that the Black Lives Matter Global Network made really were the - really started the tensions that we were starting to see - the appointment of Patrisse Cullors to executive director, the formation of the political action committee and the formation of Black Lives Matter Grassroots, which was an activist arm of the Black Lives Matter Global Network. Welcome back to the program.ĬORNISH: So what was the catalyst to the tensions? What happened between national leadership and local chapters that kicked this off? She's been following this in detail and joins us now.

Maya King is a demographics and politics reporter at Politico. and Chicago, are cutting ties with national leadership. Just who owns the future of the Movement for Black Lives, a movement that began as a decentralized grassroots network that's fracturing as it grows in power? Ten local chapters of Black Lives Matter, including groups in Philadelphia, D.C.

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