Abrams was first declared co-chair of the Black Voices for Black Justice Fund (BVBJ) in April 2021. She announced in a press release back then that she was "excited" and "honored" to join the organization because it "puts Black leaders in the driver's seat – with Black activists on the ground who understand how racism plays out in their community defining both the problem and the solutions."
BVBJ describes itself as a "pooled philanthropic fund" with 18 partners, including the Joe and Clara Tsai Foundation, a private grant-making foundation based in La Jolla, California.
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Joe Tsai of that foundation is a billionaire Canadian citizen who co-founded and presently serves as executive vice chairman of Alibaba Group, one of China's largest technology companies that actively works to advance the interests of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
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ESPN released an extensive report on Tsai in April, mentioning a study that found Alibaba is "effectively state-controlled" by the Chinese government. That idea is underscored by co-founder Jack Ma's disappearance from public view after he denounced China's financial regulators in October 2020. It was just in October 2021 that Ma, a longtime CCP member, reappeared in Hong Kong, Reuters reported.
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A 2019 article in Education About Asia described Alibaba as a "national champion" of the Chinese government because it advances state interests while benefiting from state policies.
"While not state-owned, Alibaba still finds itself like other private Chinese tech companies deeply involved with the government as one of its national champions," the article announced.
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While Tsai has donated millions to social justice movements in the U.S., Alibaba funds several Chinese artificial intelligence companies blacklisted by the U.S. for human rights abuses, ESPN reported.
The technologies that Alibaba helped produce have further been used for government surveillance and to "re-educate" Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang, according to a congressional report in June 2020. According to a report by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, Alibaba in 2014 entered a strategic partnership with the Xinjiang government to provide cloud computing technologies to apply in areas of policing and counterterrorism.
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Tsai has not publicly spoken about China's Uyghurs' treatment. In 2018, he explained to the Milken Institute that it was "important" for China to limit freedoms of its people in order to achieve and retain "absolute stability in the country."
In 2019, Tsai announced, "It is what it is," when questioned throughout a discussion at the University of California San Diego to weigh in on the crackdowns on academic freedoms in China.
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