Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors says she's leaving her role as the organization's executive director
On Thursday, she said on her YouTube channel,"... I feel excited for me, and my next journey."Cullors revealed that at the end of 2019 she had stepped back from the organization, but people within BLM asked her to come back during last summer's uprising."I didn't make a public announcement. I really wanted to see the next generation of leadership lead," she said."I really had to think about it, like, it's a lot of work, it's a lot of responsibility.
And momentum around the movement grew amid calls for justice following the deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and George Floyd last year.In 2017 it became incorporated as the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, Inc.Earlier this year the foundation released its 2020 Impact Report. The foundation in said in the report that it raised over $90 million in 2020 alone, giving about a quarter of it -- nearly three times the industry norm -- to BLM chapters and local organizations.