Rashad Robinson and Jose Antonio Vargas discuss how the detention of 21 Savage is the latest example of US government targeting immigrants and minorities for political gain while pretending it’s a matter of border security.
Our research is cited in this article on how the government shutdown may be shifting perceptions of poverty. In a review of local and national news stories, we found that Black families represented 59 percent of the poor in the news but only made up 27 percent of the nation’s poor in real life.
This op-ed by Rashad Robinson and Reverend William Barber explains what we are doing to put political and economic pressure on the corporations enabling voter suppression — and what it’ll take to overcome the forces keeping people of color’s and poor people’s votes from counting.
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.
Nearly 300 companies have pulled their ads from Glenn Beck’s show. Join the effort to stop his hateful rhetoric.