Black Lives Matter Grassroots organizer Sheila Bates stands among protesters outside the Taglyan Cultural Complex in Hollywood Dec. 9, where demonstrators accused Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation Chair Cicely Gay of financial mismanagement during a gala event.

Photo by Stephen Oduntan

By Stephen Oduntan

Contributing Writer

HOLLYWOOD — The chanting carried down Lexington Avenue Dec. 9, rising over a row of brake lights glowing red along the narrow block outside the Taglyan Cultural Complex. Car horns burst in sharp, overlapping blasts — some impatient, some curious — as a dozen Black Lives Matter Grassroots organizers stood beneath the streetlamps holding hand-painted signs that read

“No honor for thieves,” “Return the movement,” and “Grassroots, not grifters.”

“Cicely Gay

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