Black Lives Matter Partners With Charity in Sign of Growth

Black Lives Matter, which two years ago grew out of street protests and a social-media hashtag, has quietly established a legal partnership with a California charity in a sign of the movement's growth and expanding ambition, The Associated Press has learned.

The formal relationship between the national Black Lives Matter network and the San Francisco-based International Development Exchange (IDEX) represents another side of the loosely knit group that many Americans recognize for its sometimes-disruptive demonstrations against police shootings of unarmed black men.

Since November, the nonprofit has been acting as a mostly unseen financial arm of Black Lives Matter.