Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation said the activists, Cicley Gay and D’Zhane Parker, will sit on its board alongside longtime member Shalomyah Bowers, who is also closely linked to Cullors. Absent from the charity’s announcement was any mention of Hillary Clinton ally Minyon Moore, who was identified as a BLM board member in filings the group submitted to California in February.
The appointments indicate that BLM is either reluctant or unable to find leadership outside Cullors’s circle of influence.
It’s not clear if Moore continues to sit on BLM’s board. In February, the charity said that Moore had been “required to cease all involvement in matters pertaining to her work with Black Lives Matter” while she was an adviser to President Joe Biden during Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation process in February.
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Moore did not return demands for comment. Gay, Parker, and Bowers worked with a ballot initiative campaign led by Cullors in 2019.
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Gay’s company, The Amplifiers, received $53,000 from the campaign Reform LA Jails for consulting services in 2019, campaign filings show.
Gay has been the chairwoman of the BLM board of directors since April, according to her LinkedIn page.
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Parker garnered $20,500 as the lead organizer for Reform LA Jails in 2019, the filings show.
Also, in 2019, Bowers Consulting Firm, the company led by Bowers, raked in over $280,000 from Reform LA Jails while the group was under Cullors’s control.
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Reform LA Jails' campaign filings from 2019 identified Cullors as the group’s "controlling officeholder” and Bowers as its treasurer.
Cullors left BLM in May 2021 amid scrutinizing her personal real estate purchases. In October 2020, when she was still in charge of the charity, BLM purchased a $6 million Los Angeles mansion in cash and then took measures to hide the purchase from the public.
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While Cullors has claimed to have had no involvement with BLM since she left the group, members of her nuclear family, including her brother, mother, and sister, work at the charity’s Los Angeles mansion, according to internal communications obtained by New York Magazine.
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BLM has experienced a storm of scrutiny since the Washington Examiner reported in January that the charity had no leader since Cullors left in May 2021. The two activists Cullors picked as her replacements quietly announced in September that they never took the jobs because of conflicts with BLM.
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Following the Washington Examiner’s reporting, states like California issued legal threats to BLM over its lack of financial clarity. BLM voluntarily shut down its ability to raise funds in early February as it worked to fix registration problems in multiple states.
As of Wednesday afternoon, BLM’s online fundraising streams remain closed.
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