Who exactly is running the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, the legal entity that runs the national BLM movement, and deciding how to spend the $60 million it has on hand?
As The Post reported last week, the pair who supposedly took over after Patrisse Kahn-Cullors stepped down as executive director didn’t actually do so: Both Makani Themba and Monifa Bandele told the Washington Examiner they never took the jobs, because of disagreements about the organization’s direction.
Meanwhile, Kahn-Cullors quit (if she really did) after The Post revealed that she’d spent some $3.2 million buying real estate across the country, including a $1.4 million home just outside Malibu, Calif.
And it turns out the foundation has sent millions to M4BJ, a Canadian nonprofit run by Kahn-Cullors’ wife, Janaya Khan — which in turn forked over $6 million-plus last July to buy a sprawling 10,000-sq.-ft. Toronto mansion that once served as a Communist Party headquarters, now renamed the Wildseed Centre for Art and Activism.
Makani Themba did not accept the executive director role because she had disagreements with the organization. Twitter
Monifa Bandele also declined the executive director position. They could not see eye to eye on the role. LightRocket via Getty ImagesTwo top M4BJ members themselves quit over this use of funds.
That purchase, by the way, came at least a month after Khan-Cullors officially resigned from running the US entity, which has yet to file its 2020 tax return — and whose LA address on its 2019 form doesn’t actually exist.
It all looks like the folks lucky enough to control tens of millions have been diverting charity money to lavish living in a manner reminiscent of all those televangelist scandals.
At the very least, all the people and corporations that have given more than $90 million to the BLM foundation deserve answers as to just what the heck is going on with its finances.
