Rashad writes about how the Central Park 5 case was a political awakening for him — and what Ava DuVernay’s new mini-series reveals about our power to come together and change the criminal justice system.
This article talks about how this year’s Mama’s Day Bailout raised close to $2 million and bailed out 308 women. Now, a new fellowship is giving them the chance to organize and advocate for criminal justice reform.
This article mentions COC’s successful campaign to hold Linda Fairstein, one of the prosecutors who used coerced confessions to put five innocent boys in prison, accountable. The true takeaway from Ava DuVernay’s new miniseries, it argues, is how prosecutors are behind so many of the cracks in our criminal justice system.
This feature takes a deep dive into the many issues COC works on — from abusive police tactics to prosecutorial misconduct — that are unearthed in Ava DuVernay’s new Netflix series on the Central Park Five.
For the third Mother’s Day in a row, Color Of Change supported the Black Mama’s Bail Out, a grassroots effort to bring women home — and amplify calls to end money bail and the growing incarceration of women.
Years ago, Color Of Change members pressured Fox to pull Cops, the enormously high-rated and racist reality TV show from its network. Now, a new podcast explains how the show created false and dangerous ideals about police and law enforcement, just as we are about to launch our new research report on crime TV shows.
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.