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Organization Trends
The Organizational Restructuring of Black Lives Matter: Movement for Black Lives
While the Black Lives Matter movement as a whole remains focused on largely unchanged issues—particularly policing and other criminal justice topics—these two organizations have undergone some fairly significant transformations in…
by Robert Stilson on April 29, 2021

Organization Trends
The Organizational Restructuring of Black Lives Matter: BLM Global Network Foundation
The year 2020 witnessed even more dramatic changes within the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation (BLM Global Network Foundation). The organization underwent a leadership change and experienced some internal…
by Robert Stilson on April 29, 2021

Media Hits
Black Lives Matter Facing an Internal Rebellion
CRC researchers were quoted extensively in a recent Washington Times report about growing dissention within the Black Lives Matter movement. “My first thought is the old saying: Every great cause…
by CRC Staff on December 4, 2020

Special Report
Radical Lives Matter
The radical ideas and violence associated with the Black Lives Matter movement are simply the latest eruptions of a type of left-wing politics that goes back decades, at least. Indeed,…
by Scott Walter on November 18, 2020

Commentary, Organization Trends
Riot Funding Could Use Some Sunlight
The Department of Justice (DOJ) recently confirmed it had opened a criminal investigation into funding behind the civil unrest. While some members of Congress have called for an investigation, critics…
by Sarah Lee on September 29, 2020

Foundation Watch
Tides Is the Tip of the Anti-Police Spear
To discover who is leading—and financing—the war on America’s police, look no further than the Tides Center. Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation—a the leading group in the radical, Marxist-led…
by Hayden Ludwig on July 29, 2020

Foundation Watch
The Nathan Cummings Foundation
(PDF here) The Nathan Cummings Foundation is yet another philanthropy whose original donor was able to live the American dream and create great wealth through the free market.  But…
by Jonathan M. Hanen on December 2, 2013

Article
Brett Kimberlin and the Threshold Foundation’s radical ties
What do self-described “communist” Van Jones, his good friend Arianna Huffington, radical philanthropist George Soros, the Threshold Foundation, and the Tides Foundation all have in common? They all are connected…
by Matthew Vadum on May 30, 2012

Foundation Watch
Federal Tax Dollars Indirectly Fund Organization Leading Assault on ALEC
Joel Griffith has an item in Red State this morning that’s worth looking at. He writes that the Center for Media and Democracy is leading the charge against the…
by vadum on April 20, 2012