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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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  • DOJ, Investigate the Minneapolis PD

    One guilty verdict for one officer is not enough. Chauvin isn't the only abusive cop in Minneapolis. We’re calling on the DOJ to investigate police departments with a track record of threatening Black lives — for civil rights violations and inappropriate use of force.
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  • Fire the Cop Who Killed Daunte

    Brooklyn police officer Kim Potter murdered Daunte Wright. And she knows how to cover it up because she helped other cops avoid accountability as a former police union president. She resigned to try to escape punishment but we continue to fight for justice.
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  • A Toolkit for Reimagining Safety

    One year after George Floyd was murdered, our fight continues to alter a system that continues to threaten, harm, and kill Black people. Chauvin's trial may be over, but the movement for racial justice is not. See how we're advocating for systemic change.
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  • Congress, End Qualified Immunity

    Qualified immunity stops us from holding police officers accountable for the lives they've taken and harms they’ve inflicted on Black people. We need accountability — to do that, we have to repeal laws that unfairly protect police.
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  • Biden, Protect Black Migrants

    The Biden Administration has sent 1,300 Haitian migrants including babies and pregnant women back to Haiti during a violent political crisis. Many more have been locked in cages in detention centers. For years the U.S. backed Haiti's dictatorship. We can't turn our back on Haitians now.
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  • Black Patients Guide to COVID-19

    Black Patients' Guide to COVID-19 Vaccine Out Now

    Color Of Change teamed up Dr. Ruth Arumala to share best practices for combatting COVID-19 in the Black community. Get answers to your questions about the vaccine, distribution, and how to protect yourself.
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  • Tell Biden to Eliminate Student Debt

    For too long, Black people have been trapped in lifelong, impossible-to-repay student loans. With the pandemic, people are struggling just to make rent and stay afloat. Now's the time for our president to cancel student debt.
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  • Hold Companies Accountable for the Insurrection

    Toyota, JetBlue, AT&T, T-Mobile and Cigna are backing out of promises to pull funding from members of Congress who supported the insurrection in January. This is unacceptable. We're demanding they stop funding hate.
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  • We Need to Regulate Big Tech!

    For years, we’ve wondered why Google, Facebook, and Twitter won’t stop promoting the kinds of conspiracy theories that led to the attack on the Capitol. The reason? Their platforms are built to foster engagement and growth — at ALL costs. It's time for legislation.
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RECENT VICTORIES

  • Tech Justice

Twitter Cracks Down on Right-Wing Media Pundit for Glorifying Kenosha Killing

All year Color Of Change has aggressively been pressing tech giants to crack down on hate speech and stop spreading racist calls to violence. Twitter recently put its new policy into practice – deleting a post from Ann Coulter applauding Kyle Rittenhouse for murdering two nonviolent protestors. Twitter has assured us that they won’t tolerate tweets encouraging vigilante violence like we’ve seen in recent months. We will continue to push them to do more to seek out those with millions of followers using their platform to fuel white nationalism and anti-Black violence.

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Twitter Bans Hate Content & Permanently Bars KKK Founder David Duke

After a year of consistent pressure by Color Of Change members, Twitter agreed to a new policy banning hate speech and permanently suspending Ku Klux Klan founder David Duke from the platform. Duke repeatedly violated Twitter’s rules against promoting violence against people based on race, religion, or ethnicity. He used social media to spread his message of white supremacy, regularly insulting and threatening Black people, Jewish people, women, and LGBTQ people. We will continue to work with Twitter to make sure they fully enforce their new “no hateful conduct” rules — to keep hateful rhetoric online from fueling real-world violence and to crack down on misinformation around the upcoming elections and COVID-19.

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#StopHateForProfit Coalition Leads $7B Advertising Boycott Against Facebook

For years, Color Of Change has demanded Facebook stop hate speech, calls to violence, racist lies, and housing discrimination on its platform. We’ve pressed Facebook to do more to protect Black people online and pushed them to release a civil rights audit of their practices. But they continue to put profits above people. So we joined with the NAACP, Anti-Defamation League, and several other justice groups to launch #StopHateForProfit. Together we’ve persuaded more than 200 major corporations to pull $7B in advertising from Facebook during the month of July. And we’re just getting started. With the lies Trump continues to spread about voting fraud, the calls for violence against protestors, and the implications for November’s elections and the pandemic in allowing misinformation to spread, we simply have too much at stake. 

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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.

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January 10, 2021

‘Blatant Racism in Practice’: For Pinterest Whistleblowers, Settlement Is a Slap in Face

Fast Company talks about what the lawsuit against Pinterest reveals about how much more seriously Silicon Valley takes discrimination alleged by white women than Black women. Color Of Change’s Senior Campaigns Director Jade Magnus Ogunnaike is quoted. “This week, we saw, yet again, another large corporation display clear inequitable treatment of Black employees in Silicon Valley. Pinterest’s handling of Francoise Brougher’s lawsuit—paying out $22.5 million—compared to how the company practically ignored Ifeoma Ozoma and Aerica Shimizu Banks after they called out intense discrimination, is blatant racism in practice.”

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January 7, 2021

Tech’s Race Problem Is All About Power

Color Of Change President Rashad Robinson is quoted in this article about why big tech still remains so white and so reluctant to deal with the human rights repercussions of its work. Time and again, we see an industry whose products and working conditions contradict the industry rhetoric about changing the world for the better. Too often, experts say, workers from underrepresented groups, regardless of their numbers, aren’t in positions to effect real change at tech companies and face enormous structural barriers in trying to rise to the upper ranks. It’s not enough to just “have the right people in the room,” he says. “If we end up with diversity for diversity’s sake, that doesn’t actually change the nuances, the structures, the contours, and in particular, the rules.”

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January 7, 2021

AUDIO INTERVIEW: White Supremacy Is Baked Into Our Electoral System

This year’s elections show that that the deep, foundational biases of our democracy have come back to haunt us—again. In this conversation about representation, the electoral college, and how our votes get counted, Color Of Change President Rashad Robinson how barriers to casting and counting the votes of Black Americans have been “baked in” to our political system. “The majority of Americans and went to the polls and did not want Donald Trump to be president. And they elected someone that they do not necessarily love to get rid of Trump.” He says the electoral college was specifically designed to prioritize slaveowners in the South. “What Black people have had to do is win races with our hands tied behind our backs.”

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January 7, 2021

Far Too Little Has Changed with American Policing

This expose, by a human rights activist and filmmaker who made a documentary about the NYPD, talks about what it’ll take to really change the legacy of violence against Black people by police. Some of Color Of Change’s solutions–making officer misconduct records and disciplinary histories publicly accessible, creating a national registry of officers flagged for firing because of misconduct on the job, and responding to mental health crises with healthcare rather than police intervention–are centered. The Movement for Black Lives similarly proposes democratic community control of local, state, and federal law enforcement, giving the communities victimized by policing the authority to control budgets and hire, fire, and discipline officers.

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January 1, 2021

The Music Industry Needs to Change. Here’s their Roadmap.

This summer, the Recording Academy gave Color Of Change $1M, asking for their help in addressing racism and inequity in the music industry. Their solution is #ChangeMusic, a roadmap records labels, studios, production and promotion agencies can use to address a history of exploitation and devaluing Black people’s contributions. COC President Rashad Robinson is quoted, “In a year of uprising, sickness, and distance, music has been both a healing force and a call to action. It’s helped us process our pain and drive social change. This moment offers an unparalleled opportunity to take action… the music industry must tear down the barriers that have been up for far too long. #ChangeMusic is our first step.”

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December 29, 2020

Rashad Robinson Is Holding Corporations Accountable & Building Black Political Power

Forbes features Rashad Robinson as an innovative leader working to dismantle racism by tackling it from all directions. Going into the elections, Color Of Change stepped up efforts to stop voter suppression and reaffirm the right to vote. But in a year when economic and social inequalities between white and Black people gained global attention, the organization has been seizing the moment and building power for Black people in nearly every area from corporate accountability and economic relief during COVID-19 to how police are portrayed and racism is often rendered invisible on TV.

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Strategic Initiatives

Democracy & Census

Black people have the power to shape our democracy and set the agenda when they speak up and turn out in elections. Through our Black Brunches we have brought together more than 20,000 people across 20 cities—including many new to politics. Going into 2020, we have tremendous opportunities to register new voters, protect voting rights, and make sure our communities are counted and represented in the 2020 Census. We are engaging local leaders and our 1.7M members to help set a progressive agenda around criminal justice reform and boost civic participation in Black communities.

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Winning Justice

No one holds more power in our justice system than prosecutors. They decide who to prosecute, what the charges will be, and routinely make decisions that destroy Black people’s lives. We are ushering in a new era of prosecutor accountability by mobilizing Black communities across the country. Already, we've pushed prosecutors and candidates in a dozen cities make pledges to cut incarceration. We continue to build momentum to end the most unjust, destructive and racist practices in our system from money bail to over-sentencing, over-policing, and sending our children to adult prisons.

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COC Hollywood

TV and film play a profound role in shaping American culture. Yet, when it comes to representation of Black people, culture, and issues, far too much of the content Hollywood produces promotes dangerous misunderstandings that holds back racial justice in the real world. COC Hollywood is our initiative to change the rules in Hollywood by ensuring accurate, diverse, empathetic and human portrayals of Black people onscreen. We consult on film and TV projects, partner with changemakers inside the industry, work to raise standards around hiring and diversity, and elevate Black stories.

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