Where is Black Lives Matter? Infighting, internal strife degrading coordination

After starting with a bang in 2013, the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement (part of an umbrella group called the Movement for Black Lives) is... noticeably AWOL.

Sure, they're still around, causing the occasional disruption, but they're not nearly as strong as we've seen in previous years. A Buzzfeed article posted last month contained interviews with several BLM advocates, who described the organization as rife with infighting, factions, and inaction.

• BLM members were generally pessimistic about the group's future.

• According to the Buzzfeed writer, "Black Lives Matter is still here. Its groups are still organizing. But Black Lives Matter is on the verge of losing the traction and momentum that sparked a national shift on criminal justice policy."

• A strategic planning meeting organized shortly after the Trump inauguration apparently broke down after little progress was made in identifying how to respond to the Trump administration.

• The Buzzfeed article describes the condition of the BLM movement: "After years of organizing, local activists were cash-strapped, trying to keep their people motivated, and struggling to coordinate with other groups nationally while staying relevant at home."

• One reason for the movement's departure from relevance is that the planners focused on building policy to be implemented by government. No longer being relevant to the government and their goal of policy implementation no longer available to them, BLM seems lost.