According to The Forward, the group's membership began to decline around early August 2021 due to ' Kevin Rashid Johnson of the New Afrikan Black Panther Party the organization of being an undercover right-wing group trying to sow division within leftist movements.' On January 24, 2021, he released a video wearing Joker makeup and calling Holocaust victim Anne Frank a 'bleach demon,' a 'colonizer,' a 'parasite', and a ' Karen,' and claiming that he was going to burn copies of her diary for warmth.

Kodzo is known for his controversial social media presence. One of the founding members, Gazi Kodzo (born Augustus Cornelius Romain Jr.), eventually rose as the organization's leader, which according to a founding member who defected, caused the group to go 'from a vehicle of liberation to one of abuse and toxicity.' Other former members have accused Kodzo of 'overworking members in sweatshop conditions' and ' members into breaking up with life partners and spouses.' Later allegations stated that Kodzo had infiltrated the Black Hammer Party and engaged in forced labor against party members. The group called for a black and Native American-led revolution and a separate homeland, as well as reparations from white ' colonizers.' The Daily Beast described the group's rhetoric as both anti-white and antisemitic. The group was founded as the Black Hammer Organization in 2019 in Atlanta by 'a handful of activists with backgrounds in radical Black communist organizing.' By 2020, membership increased significantly following the murder of George Floyd and the ensuing protests across the United States, with the organization amassing 'hundreds' of members and chapters across the country. The group reportedly recruits among the homeless population. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution described the organization as mixing ' Black nationalist rhetoric and a revolutionary message with hot-button issues like anti-vaccine myths and election conspiracies.' Commentators, including former leaders and members, have referred to the organization as a cult. It rose to prominence in the early 2020s amidst the George Floyd protests and the 2020–2023 United States racial unrest, when it attempted to construct a compound in the Rocky Mountains which it named 'Hammer City.'

The organization was founded in Atlanta, Georgia in 2019, by ex-members of the African People's Socialist Party, and has undergone a transition from far-left politics to far-right politics.

The Black Hammer Party, formerly the Black Hammer Organization and commonly known as the Black Hammers, is a radical African American political organization that advocates black separatism, conservatism, and political violence.

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