By Liz Courquet-Lesaulnier Leaf through the pregnancy advice classic “What to Expect When You’re Expecting,” and you’ll find answers to questions like “Can I keep up my spinning class?” and “How can I eat for two if I’m too queasy to eat for one?” Absent from the book, however, are tips for the estimated 58,000 […]
Erika Maye, Color Of Change’s Criminal Justice & Democracy Campaigns Sr Director, writes about how no one should have the threat of incarceration looming over them for pregnancy outcomes. Yet all too often, that is the reality for Black women. Last year, Maya Caston was incarcerated after she gave birth to stillborn twins. Instead of receiving the support and care she desperately needed — and deserved — she was arrested and indicted by the St. Louis County prosecutor. Her story is not unique, and it’s only likely to get worse under the rash of reproductive health bans being passed now. Women can be charged with murder for miscarriage or stillbirth, having untreated mental health disorders, or coping with abuse in unhealthy ways. Low-income Black women in the South are most likely to be targeted.
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For Immediate Release: Friday, May 7, 2021 Contact: media@colorofchange.org National Bail Out, Color Of Change & Advocacy Groups Announce Fifth Annual Black Mama’s Bail Out to Free Incarcerated Mothers and Reunite Black Families For Mother’s Day Initiative Has Raised More Than $5 Million & Bailed Out More Than 500 Women in Past Four Years […]
Mothers call on newly appointed NYPD inspector general to investigate troubling pattern of incidents resulting in civilian deaths and appropriateness of NYPD disciplinary actions
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 25, 2024 CONTACT: media@colorofchange.org The Alameda County DA Accountability Table Supports DA Pamela Price’s Decision Not to Pursue Adult Prosecution in Case Involving a Juvenile Oakland, CA – The Alameda County District Attorney Accountability Table (ACDAAT) grieves with the family of Jazy and Angel Sotelo Garcia and expresses our deepest sympathies for […]
By Liz Courquet Lesaunier Back when he was in prison, Reginald Belle knew that if he wanted to phone home, the telecom corporation that connected him to the outside world would charge as much as $1 a minute for the call. At that crazy-high rate, his loved ones told him, their monthly bill sometimes skyrocketed […]
By Liz Courquet Lesaunier What would you give up for 381 days in pursuit of justice? Sixty-seven years ago this month, nearly 40,000 Black residents of Montgomery, Alabama, gave up the comfort and convenience of mass transportation to demand equality. For more than a year, they turned their backs on the city bus system in […]
By Aldore Collier Destanie Newell cringes deep down everytime she hears people use the term “foster kids.” It’s because Newell, a senior regional manager of Color Of Change’s Movement Building Team, spent the majority of her childhood in the foster care system – from age 2 to 17. She knows firsthand the painful stigma that […]
By Aldore Collier When emails and calls went out recently to Color Of Change volunteers to donate time and money to help children in foster care, the response was immediate and heartwarming. Since 2021, COC members have served more than 1,200 youths and young adults in Houston, Los Angeles and Oakland through Comfort Drops, a […]
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 […]
For Immediate Release: November 18, 2022 CONTACT: media@colorofchange.org COLOR OF CHANGE: DISTRICT ATTORNEY BRAGG HAS MADE THE RIGHT DECISION AND WE CALL ON STATE SUPREME COURT JUDGE DIANA KIESEL TO HONOR HIS DECISION NOT TO PROSECUTE TRACY MCCARTER Sakira Cook, vice president of Color Of Change, the nation’s largest online racial justice organization, issued […]