News Snapshot:
A venture of Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza that serves as a political lobbying arm for the movement is funded by a surrogate of the Chinese Communist Party called the Chinese Progressive Association. Garza, a self-described "trained Marxist," has declared that her Black Lives Matter movement cannot succeed unless capitalism is "abolished." The BLM lobbying arm, Black Futures Lab, was founded in September 2018, according to the news site Colorlines, "to engage advocacy organizations and legislators to advance local-, state- and federal-level policies that make Black communities stronger" and "craft strategies that harness Black political power to bring those...
