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Color Of Change helps you do something real about injustice.

We design campaigns powerful enough to end practices that unfairly hold Black people back, and champion solutions that move us all forward. Until justice is real.
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  • Fight the Justice #ChokeholdOnProgress

    Right-wing politicians and police unions are blocking key criminal justice reforms and advancing policies that make it virtually impossible to hold cops accountable for violence against Black people. Email your Congressional rep to tell them to say "no" to the #ChokeholdOnProgress.
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  • Defend Justice Reforms that Benefit Black Communities

    End money bail. Hold cops accountable. We need reform! But Trump is trying to intimidate prosecutors to take us back to the mass incarceration, failed "tough on crime" policies of the '80s. Sign our pledge to stand with progressive prosecutors and Black communities!
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  • Don't Let Textbook Publishers White-Wash History!

    Black history is under attack. Florida passed a bill censoring conversations about slavery and oppression. Now they're throwing out textbooks with Black mathematicians and ethnically diverse names. Demand McGraw Hill publicly commit to keeping diversity in their learning materials. Representation matters!
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  • Big Tech Must Ban Trump for Good

    It's time! Trump is once again provoking violence to avoid accountability, calling on supporters to "take our nation back" as prosecutors prepare to indict him. Big Tech are his accomplices. Unless we want another Jan. 6th on our hands, Big Tech must permanently ban Trump from their platforms.
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  • It's Time to Redefine Community Safety

    Communities know what keeps them safe — and it’s not police. This is what public safety could and should look like. Read our guide on how the federal government can advance community safety with evidence-based policies we developed with Civil Rights Corps and Vera Action.
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RECENT VICTORIES

Florida Housing Complex Forced to Stop Illegally Evicting Black Families

Last January we launched a rapid response campaign following a wave of evictions at Holly Court Apartments in Tampa. Victoria Lee, a tenant there, used our OrganizeFor platform to mobilize thousands of members and amplify tenant demands to fix the plumbing, honor leases, and support tenants who’d been illegally pushed out. Many families were given eviction notices on New Year’s Eve for no reason at all and given just 30 days to find a new home. One mother reported having to go to the corner store to use the bathroom as raw sewage backed up in her tub. Management all but ignored calls for help and she had to call out of work for days because she couldn’t shower. After the online petition and a sleep-in protest, Palm Communities agreed to honor residents’ leases, provide temporary housing for displaced residents, and resolve maintenance issues. Housing is a human right, but far too often greed and profit trump the needs of Black and low-income residents who live in buildings owned by private equity firms. Your calls and text messages kept residents in their homes!

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AT&T Pulls Funding from White Nationalist Network

With your help, we pressured AT&T to stop funding the far-right network One America News. OAN was a major vehicle for Trump, and has continued to provide a “friendly” platform for his allies. We've seen correspondents use racial slurs, call for the execution of election officials, suggest shooting unhoused people – all without consequence. OAN consistently promotes hate-filled content, and disseminates dangerous misinformation about the 2020 elections and safety of the COVID-19 vaccine, with the goal of provoking their audience. Research revealed a major reason for the network's success was support from AT&T. AT&T should know better. So thousands of Color Of Change members wrote to AT&T CEO John Stankey, and we were heard. One America Network has been removed from DirectTV. This is another step towards making sure the media isn’t allowed to amplify racist lies that lead to real-world violence against Black people.

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Biden Grants Clemency to 70 People on Home Confinement

Throughout the pandemic, we’ve fought to get incarcerated people who pose no risk to their communities but could fall deathly ill with COVID sent home. On April 26, 2022, nearly 150,000 Color Of Change members helped convince President Biden to free 70 people on home confinement. That means they can live independently, pursue their dreams, spend time with friends and family without electronic monitors or other dehumanizing conditions of confinement. It is historic for a president to grant so many clemencies in their first term. But thousands more people deserve to be free – and risk being sent back due to minor technicalities or bureaucratic errors. People on home confinement have had to turn down jobs or miss funerals because they’re outside of the range they’re allowed to travel. Biden promised he'd end mass incarceration and cut the prison population in half. Help us hold him to that.

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Color Of Change helps people respond effectively to injustice in the world around us. As a national online force driven by 7 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.

IN THE MEDIA

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March 29, 2023

Why Advertisers Aren’t Coming Back to Twitter

Since Elon Musk took over Twitter last October, many big-name advertisers have paused spending on the platform. Ads historically make up 90% of Twitter’s revenue. Many blame the lack of confidence in Musk to control and moderate what’s spread on the platform. Major corporations don’t want to jeopardize their “brand safety” by being associated with openly racist, sexist, or hateful content. Color Of Change has launched a campaign pressuring advertisers to drop Twitter because platform continues to promote harmful content while Musk turns a blind eye, or worse, contributes to the slurs and conspiracy theories. COC President Rashad Robinson is quoted, “What we hear from Elon every single day gives us new outreach and entree to advertisers.”

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March 25, 2023

Tracy McCarter Walked Free From Murder Charges. This Campaign Helped Get Her Out.

Color Of Change helped #StandWithTracy reach a volume that neither the media nor New York City politicians could ignore. In the end, the DA dropped all charges against Tracey, hopefully changing how domestic violence survivors are treated by the criminal justice system going forward. Tracy’s initial supporters raised money, contacted the DA’s office, and held social media power hours. But Color Of Change had donated to DA Bragg’s campaign, and held his feet to the fire. COC Vice President Sakira Cook says, “We worked with Survived and Punished for 10 months to hold Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg accountable.” They putan ad in the New York Times, produced videos, and organized a petition that with 21,000 signatures. Still, getting the case dismissed was no small feat. According to the ACLU, there’s serious bias baked into self-defense laws. A man who kills a female partner will serve 2-to-6 years while women on average serve 15. She says, “This is the part of the system we are trying to change.”

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March 15, 2023

3 Black Leaders Offer 1 Practical Solution to Protect Black Motorists

Color Of Change President Rashad Robinson contributed to this op-ed on the DOJ’s move to investigate Memphis police for their abuse of force, which led to the death of Tyre Nichols. Unnecessary traffic stops kill Black people all the time. Of the more than 1,000 people killed by police each year, 10% involve traffic stops. Nearly half are for issues as minor as a broken taillight or tinted windows. There’s no reason to send armed cops to deal with these issues. Rashad writes with the presidents of the Vera Institute for Justice and Center for American Progress, “As three Black men, we know firsthand the worry of whether the everyday act of driving will end in tragedy for ourselves, our brothers and sisters, or nieces and nephews and children… Changing the way traffic stops happen in this nation is foundational to any discussion about police reform. By reforming them, federal, state and local leaders can save countless lives.”

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March 11, 2023

“Playgrounds for Cops,” United Against ‘Cop City’

23 people including a legal observer were arrested at ongoing protests at “Cop City” and charged with domestic terrorism. For years, Color Of Change has been raising the alarms that residents overwhelmingly oppose the $90M mega-police training complex being built outside Atlanta — and that elite police forces lead to the kind of violence that killed Tyre Nichols. Color Of Change Sr. Campaign Director Kyle Bibby says, “We have a problem in the United States with how deeply unimaginative our leaders are in addressing crime. All we do is increasingly militarize our police. We increase funding, but that doesn’t actually address real systemic issues that lead to crime. People in the community would like to see that money go towards housing, education programs, violence prevention, mental healthcare.” Meanwhile the controversy around Cop City continues. In January, a 26-year-old environmental activist was killed by officers at the protest there.

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March 7, 2023

23 Charged with Terrorism in Atlanta ‘Cop City’ Protest

Twenty people were arrested and charged with domestic terrorism for protesting “Cop City,” a huge police training facility being built near Atlanta. Police shot and killed 26-year-old environmental activist Manuel Esteban Paez Terán during a raid of the protest encampment there in January. Color Of Change has been working alongside activists in Atlanta to make the case that the facility will only harm Black communities and that militarizing law enforcement makes us all less safe. Color Of Change President Rashad Robinson is quoted, “This just takes up a lot of space in a Black community … and it provides more access, more tools, and more resources to an institution that actually needs more accountability.” Those arrested for violence in connection with the protests face a felony sentence of up to 35 years in prison if convicted.

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March 1, 2023

Racial Intolerance & Hate No Longer Banned on Coinbase

Crypto platform Coinbase has gutted all its anti-racist safeguards. In August 2021 the company made changes that flew under the radar, removing a promise not to “incite, threaten, facilitate, promote, or encourage hate, racial intolerance, or violent acts against others” from its terms of service. Color Of Change Vice President Jade Magnus Ogunnaike says this “sends a clear message: Coinbase does not care about the safety and well-being of Black people who use their site.” After George Floyd’s murder, Coinbase did the opposite of many companies voicing their support for side racial justice; it banned internal discussions of political issues, prompting cries of racism from Black employees. Jade says, “Without strong content moderation policies, Coinbase will continue to put Black consumers, their own employees and stakeholders in harm’s way.”

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