COC’s Sr Criminal Justice Campaign Director Scott Roberts weighs in on Dallas’s new plan to cut incarceration. It’s “just a start,” he says, but a clear example of how local communities can successfully push prosecutors to take action.
As part of our “100 Days of Justice” campaign, Color Of Change will host a town hall in St. Louis on April 11, with prosecutor Wesley Bell, on how to transform our criminal justice system.
For years, Color Of Change put pressure on Facebook to address civil rights violations on its platform. Now, Facebook is finally promising to make amends.
Color Of Change helps people respond effectively to injustice in the world around us. As a national online force driven by more than 1.4 million members, we move decision makers in corporations and government to create a more human and less hostile world for Black people, and all people. Until justice is real.
We did something that we were told was impossible. When we first launched this campaign in 2014, people told us that we were no match for Bill O’Reilly. That no amount of public pressure, especially not from a Black organization, could ever change anything at Fox News. But our members spoke and Fox News has officially announced that Bill O’Reilly’s platform for anti Black vitriol and misogyny has been canceled.
In 2007, Color Of Change rallied our emerging community to bring a national spotlight to the Jena 6: funding a new legal team, forcing abusive officials to face national scrutiny, and changing the course of events.
In 2011, Color Of Change led a winning strategy to target a dangerously influential, secretive right-wing policy promoter, forcing more than 100 of its corporate sponsors to withdraw support.