Black Lives Matter movement activist Shaun King received a tripled income in 2021 from his social justice advocacy group despite the entity seeing its revenues plummet by almost 60%, records show.
King pulled an over $268,000 salary in 2021 from the Grassroots Law Project, while his media company called the North Star was paid $60,000 for email lists, following his roughly $104,000 pay in 2020, according to tax records and the Washington Free Beacon. The surge in cash to King, an ex-2020 presidential campaign surrogate for Sen. Bernie Sanders , comes as the nonprofit group he chairs saw its revenues decrease in 2020 from over $6.6 million to $2.6 million in 2021, filings show.
King has come under fire in recent years in connection to financial matters, including from Samaria Rice, the mother of a 12-year-old black boy named Tamir Rice, who was shot and killed in 2014 by a Cleveland, Ohio, police officer. In 2021, Samaria Rice accused King of profiting off her son's death. An activist named Keisha N.
From 2020 to 2021, Grassroots Law Project's assets went from over $4 million to over $1.8 million, according to tax filings. The group dished out over $2.1 million in salaries in 2021 — a 50% increase from the year prior.
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