[1] As an original member of the group that convened to form Black Lives Matter, she serves as a matriarch for the current movement in Los Angeles.

In addition to organizing work with BLM Los Angeles, she has hosted three local radio shows, "Move the Crowd" and "Beautiful Struggle" on KPFK and "This Is Not a Drill" on KBLA.

[4] Her paternal grandfather was Günter Reimann (born Hans Steinicke), a German-Jewish Marxist economist and member of the Communist Party of Germany who opposed Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich.

[8] She is a co-founder of the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation chapter in Los Angeles, California,[4] and regularly writes articles for the LA Progressive.

She has accused the city of Los Angeles of bringing charges for the sole purpose of quashing her activism, which often includes antagonistic encounters at Police Commission meetings.

Hines-Brim allegedly threw an unknown powdery substance at Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck, which she claimed were the cremated ashes of her niece Wakiesha Wilson (who died in LAPD custody in 2016).

[20] During a debate at Cal State LA by ABC7 for the 2022 Los Angeles mayoral election, police removed Abdullah, as well as other protesters, from the room as they did not have tickets to the event.