[12] Among its core beliefs is that the entire US legal system, mainstream media, and society is inherently white supremacist;[13] and that "policing at-large is an irredeemable institution" and should be defunded.

[16] The BLMGNF has also been accused of long-term financial mismanagement such as the purchase of mansions, providing lucrative contracts to companies owned by relatives of its founders and a lack of transparency in their fundraisers.

[6] After the 2013 acquittal of George Zimmerman for the killing of Trayvon Martin in 2012, activist Alicia Garza woke up crying in the middle of the night and decided to write about her emotions in a Facebook post.

[28] Garza and Cullors would reach out to their associate Opal Tometi to help establish Tumblr and Twitter accounts using the hashtag and where users could share relevant personal stories.

[48] BLMGN wanted to scale their activity in proportion to their incoming finances, leading to $21.7 million in grants to Black Lives Matter chapters and other POC-led activist groups.

[49] On May 27, 2021, Patrisse Cullors announced she was stepping down from her role as executive director of BLMGN to focus on the upcoming release of her second book and multi-year TV development deal with Warner Bros. Two new interim senior executives were brought aboard to steer the organization for the immediate future: Monifa Bandele, a longtime BLM organizer and founder of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement in New York City, and Makani Themba, an early backer of the BLM movement and chief strategist at Higher Ground Change Strategies in Jackson, Mississippi.

[50] On September 3, 2021, Monifa Bandele and Makani Themba issued a statement stating that "although a media advisory was released indicating that we were tapped to play the role of Senior Co-Executives at BLMGNF, we were not able to come to an agreement with the acting Leadership Council about the scope of our work and authority.

A source close to the company told Reuters the about-turn was due to fears people would misinterpret Adidas' trademark objection with opposition to BLMGNF's mission.

In an email to NBC News, BLMGN officials said that their statement was "grounded in our unequivocal support for Cuba" and that they sought to amplify the voices of Afro-Cubans protesting oppression "from all actors, including the United States Embargo."

The officials also said that "We unequivocally join in solidarity with the Cuban people against repression and violence from internal and unseen external actors" and that "We also understand that Anti-Blackness exists within Cuba and is a Global issue.

As of the article's publishing date, it was not possible to share stories from the Post's disclosure on Cullor's home purchases on Facebook as Meta had deemed such content "abusive."

[22] The IRS granted BLMGNF tax-exempt status in December 2020, enabling it to operate independently of its former fiscal sponsors Thousand Currents and Tides Foundation.

[68] Abdullah has expressed support for the Nation of Islam,[69][70][71][72] which has been criticized for black supremacist, anti-white, antisemitic, and anti-LGBT rhetoric by the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League.

[5] The authors disputed sole BLMGN board member Patrisse Cullors' appointment as executive director "without the knowledge of the majority of Black Lives Matter chapters across the country and world."

The statement went on to criticize the creation of the Black Lives Matter Political Action Committee, and BLM Grassroots, which the authors allege also occurred without their knowledge.

[5] According to Politico, chapter members had brought up their grievances about a lack of funding as early as 2016, and had prepared to go public a few months prior to the statement's reveal in November 2020.

[82][83][84] An April 2022 investigative report by New York Magazine's Intelligencer revealed that the BLMGN had secretly purchased a $6 million house in Southern California in October 2020 with donated funds.

[16][85] In May 2022, Cullors defended the purchase, saying that "We really wanted to make sure that the global network foundation had an asset that wasn't just financial resources" and that "we understood that not many Black-led organizations have property.

In early 2022, BLMGN was asserted to be out of compliance and was subjected to investigation in several states after failure to submit its 2020 IRS tax forms on November 15, 2021, after having been given a six-month extension.

[66][87][88] The Foundation failed to identify its current leadership or who controlled its more than $60 million in assets,[66] leading the Executive Director of the charity assessment organization CharityWatch to describe it as "a giant ghost ship full of treasure drifting... with no captain, no discernible crew, and no clear direction.

"[89] On January 27, 2022, a report by the Washington Examiner stated that the address listed on BLMGN's tax forms was wrong, and that a security guard onsite said there had never been a BLM office at that location.

"[89] A later Examiner piece clarified that BLMGN failed to submit its 2020 tax forms to the IRS when it was due on November 15, 2021, after previously being granted a six-month extension.

[87] The Examiner further claimed that as BLMGN was not a charity during 2020 in which it received a windfall of cash as a result of the 2020 George Floyd protests, it effectively borrowed the charitable status of its fiscal sponsors Thousand Currents and Tides Foundation.

[94] The Examiner also reported that the California Department of Justice stated the "organization BLACK LIVES MATTER GLOBAL NETWORK FOUNDATION, INC. is delinquent with The Registry of Charitable Trusts for failing to submit required annual report(s)," and vowed to hold the leadership of BLMGN personally liable if it did not submit the required documents within sixty days, as of January 31.

[88] On February 4, Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita told Fox News he launched an investigation into BLM to find out if the organization was a "scam."

On February 8, Jerri Mares, spokeswoman for New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas, announced that the office is currently "securing compliance" with BLMGN.

BLMGNF recruited the services of high-profile Democratic lawyer Marc Elias and switched its financial reporting requirements from calendar-year to fiscal-year tracking in order to buy more time.

[47] In July 2023, the case was dismissed with Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Stephanie Bowick stating the plaintiff's evidence "fails to establish ... that it was entitled to any of the donated funds at issue or that defendants have been enriched" and that it had sufficient standing to bring its claims.

[18] On February 14, 2022, BLM member and social justice activist Quintez Brown was charged with attempted murder and four counts of wanton endangerment after firing shots in the campaign headquarters of Democratic candidate for Louisville mayor Craig Greenberg.

Condemnation of the release crossed party lines, with Democratic US Senate candidate Charles Booker joining criticism of the decision, stating that "anyone who has been arrested for attempted murder — and is feared to be a harm to themselves and others — should be in custody.