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Reporter Breaks Down Black Lives Matter's Fall From Grace

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🗓️ 23 February 2022

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Black Lives Matter has been amassing huge sums of money as the organization messaged on racial justice over the past few years in the wake of national unrest following the death of George Floyd.


Andrew Kerr, an investigative reporter at the Washington Examiner, has dug into the organization's activities and found that Black Lives Matter's "shocking lack of transparency surrounding its finances and operations" raises serious moral and ethical issues.


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0:00.0

This is a daily signal podcast bonus episode.

0:09.4

I'm Mary Margaret Olahan, and I recently sat down with the Washington Examiner's Andrew

0:13.8

Kerr to discuss his reporting on the organization Black Lives Matter.

0:18.6

Through messaging on racial justice, Black Lives Matter has been reaping in massive sums

0:23.4

of money over the past few years.

0:25.6

But over the last month or so, people have begun questioning exactly where that money

0:29.9

has been going.

0:31.4

Andrew breaks down for us what exactly is going on here and what role his reporting

0:35.6

has played in exposing the organization's corruption.

0:39.2

Let's dive in.

0:51.6

My guest today is Andrew Kerr, an investigative reporter for the Washington Examiner who's

0:56.4

been uncovering truly incredible stories about Black Lives Matter as of late.

1:00.9

Andrew, thanks so much for joining us today.

1:03.0

Hey, thanks for having me on Mary Margaret.

1:05.4

You've been breaking story after bombshell story on Black Lives Matter to start us off,

1:10.1

can you explain to our listeners who we're talking about?

1:13.2

What should we know about Black Lives Matter?

1:15.2

Yes, so we're talking about the National Black Lives Matter organization.

1:20.3

It's official name is called Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation.

1:24.8

And this is the entity that received the $90 million windfall in 2020, and it's also

1:32.4

the group whose co-founder Patrice Colors was involved with all the home purchases last

1:39.0

spring that was first reported by the New York Post.

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