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Corporate Philanthropy Erodes Black Lives Matter Movement
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
25 May 2021
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Margaret Kimberley · Corporate Philanthropy Erodes Black Lives Matter Movement

Oppressed communities and political movements need money, but “I don’t believe that corporations can become partners” in people’s liberation, said Imani Wadud, a doctoral student and activist at the University of Kansas. The millions of corporate dollars that flowed into Black Lives Matter founders’ accounts after huge protests last summer has “dissipated” the “revolutionary potential of the movement” into “small measures for reform,” said Wadud.

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