http://nypost.com/2025/12/12/us-news/how-oklahoma-pastor-spent-3-15m-of-embezzled-blm-okc-money/
By Isabel Vincent
New York Post
Published Dec. 12, 2025
BLM donors are some of the most clueless, stupidest marks on the planet.
Black Lives Matter OKC leader Tashella Sheri Amore Dickerson calls herself an “unpaid protester” on her Instagram site — but the Oklahoma City-based Baptist preacher allegedly paid herself with millions in donations meant to help protestors post bail after their arrests, according to a federal indictment.
It’s just the latest in a series of financial scandals for the network of BLM civil rights groups, as various leaders across the country have been accused of mis-appropriating some $8.64 million.
Dickerson was charged Thursday with fraud and money laundering amid a sprawling federal probe into the troubled civil rights movement. Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, Inc., which took in tens of millions of dollars in corporate donations following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis in 2020, is also reportedly under investigation.
Tashella Sheri Amore Dickerson allegedly embezzled at least $3.15 million in national bail funds and donations to BLM OKC. On Facebook and Instagram, she posted a photo of herself with Democratic Minnesota Rep Ilhan Omar. | Sheri Amore/Facebook
The 52-year-old allegedly embezzled at least $3.15 million in national bail funds and donations to BLM OKC, depositing returned bail checks into her personal accounts. She spent the money on vacations to Jamaica and the Dominican Republic and to buy six Oklahoma City properties worth more than $500,000, according to a federal grand jury indictment unsealed Thursday.
Dickerson also used nearly $42,000 in cash to buy a 2021 Hyundai Palisade and spent tens of thousands of dollars shopping at Nordstrom/Nordstrom Rack, Macy’s and Best Buy, among other retailers, according to the indictment, which also lists thousands spent on grocery and food deliveries from Instacart and DoorDash.
Dickerson is accused of using money embezzled from BLM OKC to pay for personal travel to the Dominican Republic and Jamaica. | sheri_amore13/Instagram
One photo shows Dickerson at YS Falls in St. Elizabeth, Jamaica, in December 2021. | Facebook / Sheri Amore
She posted photos of her travels to the Dominican Republic and Jamaica on social media, including one of herself at YS Falls in St. Elizabeth, Jamaica, from December 2021, and another from June 2025 in which she is sitting on a Delta plane with a woman she called “auntie.”
“You got the good seats … what airline is that?” asked one of her followers.
Another post shows Dickerson smiling next to Minnesota Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar, who reportedly enjoyed close ties to some of the Somali leaders who allegedly helped perpetrate a $1 billion welfare scam in her congressional district.
Dickerson’s social media accounts are also filled with posts about of extremists such as Assata Shakur, a member of the Black Liberation Army and the Black Panther Party who was convicted of killing a New Jersey State Trooper in 1977 and escaping to exile in Cuba, where she died in September.
Federal authorities allege that Tashella Sheri Amore Dickerson paid $42,000 in donations that were meant for a bail fund to buy a new Hyundai Palisade. | chiradech – stock.adobe.com
Tashella Sheri Amore Dickerson posted photos of herself and her “auntie”on a Delta flight. | sheri_amore13/Instagram
She bought the six properties, all with deeds dating to 2021 and 2022, under her own name as well as Equity International LLC, a company she controls but which is no longer active, according to state records. One, which was labeled “church property” and purchased in March 2021, was intended to be used by BLM OKC — but she placed it in her own name, court filings alleged.
Dickerson, who started the BLM group in 2016, is listed as an associate minister at the Church of the Open Arms, a United Church of Christ congregation in Oklahoma City, which has held fundraisers for Black Lives Matter in the past, according to their website.
Calls to the church, which describes itself as progressive Christian and “an open and affirming congregation for the LGBTQIA+ community,” were not returned Friday.
Minister credentials for Dickerson from the Universal Life Church are on file in the Oklahoma County District Court, according to USA Today.
Tashella Sheri Amore Dickerson bought six properties with cash meant for BLM OKC, according to federal authorities. | Google Maps
Tashella Sheri Amore Dickerson allegedly went on a real estate buying spree with the cash, even buying up a property she labeled “church property” for the nonprofit’s use although she bought it in her own name. | Google Maps
Another of the six houses federal authorities allege Dickerson purchased with embezzled money. | Google Maps
In a 2020 letter on the Oklahoma ACLU’s website, she is listed as Affirmative Action Chair of Oklahoma Democratic Party. She had a failed City Council run in Oklahoma City in 2017.
Dickerson, who started BLM OKC in 2016, did not register it with the IRS as a tax-exempt organization. All donations were routed through various fiscal sponsors, including the Arizona-based Alliance for Global Justice. That group serves as a pass-through organization for monetary gifts to progressive and extremist groups, including the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, which allegedly fundraised for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a US-designated terrorist organization, according to the US Treasury Department.
The AFGJ also has close ties to the Maduro regime in Venezuela, according to the watchdog group Influence Watch.
The Tides Center, a nonprofit that also works with progressive groups, was also used as a conduit for cash to Dickerson’s BLM chapter, according to the federal indictment. Tides Foundation has been sued by Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation for allegedly mismanaging $33 million of the group’s funds, according to legal documents.
Tashella Sheri Amore Dickerson took vacations to Jamaica and the Dominican Republic, allegedly using thousands in donations meant for BLM OKC. | Sheri Amore/Facebook
When bail checks were returned to Dickerson’s BLM OKC, she allegedly deposited them in her personal bank accounts, according to the indictment.
“The haters are doing their job,” Dickerson reportedly said in a Facebook live stream Thursday.
“A lot of times when people come at you with these types of things — and I’m probably saying more than I should but I haven’t always been compliant, people know this — it’s evidence that you are doing the work. And so that is what I’m standing on,” she said, according to The Oklahoman.
Dickerson is not the only person accused of spending money intended for BLM for personal gain:
Sir Maejor Page
BLM of Greater Atlanta was caught up in a fraud investigation last year when federal authorities in Ohio charged Toledo resident Sir Maejor Page with defrauding donors — who believed they were contributing to a legitimate BLM chapter — of more than $450,000.
Sir Maejor Page, head of BLM Greater Atlanta — a faux BLM chapter — treated himself to guns, a home and several blue suits with more than $450,000 in donations. | instagram
Page, who created the bogus group in 2018, used the cash to buy a lavish home in Ohio and a Glock handgun and two AR-15 rifles as well as 16 blue suits, among other purchases, according to court filings.
He was convicted and sentenced to 42 months in prison last year.
Patrisse Cullors
Beginning in 2021, The Post revealed that Patrisse Cullors, one of the founders of the national Black Lives Matter movement, was doling out funds to her relatives — including her graffiti artist brother, Paul Cullors, who she put in charge of the group’s security for more than $840,000.
The Post revealed that Patrisse Cullors, one of the founders of the national Black Lives Matter movement, was doling out funds to her relatives — including her brother, who she put in charge of the group’s security for more than $840,000. | Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP
She also paid Damon Turner, the father of her child, nearly $1 million for “live production, design and media.”
Cullors herself went on a $3.2 million real estate buying spree, snapping up homes in Atlanta and Los Angeles. She claimed she did not use BLM cash for the homes she purchased, but resigned a month after The Post story.
The national group purchased a $6 million property in Studio City, California, for the group’s headquarters in 2022.
The Los Angeles-based national group, which is separate from the Oklahoma chapter, is currently under probe by the Department of Justice into allegations that it bilked donors out of tens of millions of dollars during the 2020 protests over the death of George Floyd. Subpoenas and at least one search warrant were issued in the fall as part of the investigation, according to the Associated Press.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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