COC’s Sr Criminal Justice Campaign Director Scott Roberts weighs in on Dallas’s new plan to cut incarceration. It’s “just a start,” he says, but a clear example of how local communities can successfully push prosecutors to take action.
As part of our “100 Days of Justice” campaign, Color Of Change will host a town hall in St. Louis on April 11, with prosecutor Wesley Bell, on how to transform our criminal justice system.
For years, Color Of Change put pressure on Facebook to address civil rights violations on its platform. Now, Facebook is finally promising to make amends.
Facebook announces it’ll ban white nationalist and white separatist content after an outcry from civil rights groups including Color Of Change, which has been on the company’s case for years for its questionable civil rights practices and failure to reign in hate groups.
As March Madness kicks off, Color Of Change has helped fuel a debate about why players, a great number of whom are Black, don’t get paid even a work-study salary while the NCAA makes nearly $1B each year off the games. Our campaign calls for an end to the exploitation.
Rashad Robinson is quoted in this article about the record number of people of color this election cycle. People often assume a white man has the best experience, he says, but today’s candidates are opting for new and increasingly Brown and Black campaign leaders, rather than simply going with someone who’s run a campaign but lost before.
Rashad’s video op-ed for NOW THIS on growing Black representation — in front and behind the camera in Hollywood — and why Ava DuVernay’s A Wrinkle In Time is such a leap forward for children of color. video here.
In this op-ed by Color Of Change’s Brandi Dexter-Collins, published in Pop Sugar, we talk about standing up to sexual assault against Black girls, our campaigns against R. Kelly, and partnering with Lifetime on a new series to lifts up the voices of the women who survived years of his abuse.
This Q&A published in the Huffington Post discusses how Rashad Robinson and Color Of Change have built a winning advocacy strategy, harnessing the power and potential of the Internet, to move Black people — and all people in this country — forward. Full Q&A is below. We Built This by Taryn Finley, Huffington Post, 2/1/2019. […]
Published in Nonprofit Quarterly By RASHAD ROBINSON | January 30, 2019 This article is part of NPQ’s cluster about the power of narrative in social change work. (Other articles in this series can be found at the end.) This particular article was originally published by the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society at UC Berkeley, on April 18, […]
Rashad speaks at the North Star Fund Awards about how to capitalize on this moment of political agitation following the election. He underscores the necessity of supporting Black-led interventions to accelerate social change and letting Black people truly take the lead in strategy and power in the movement for racial justice. Full video here.
Rashad passionately asks, “Are We Going to Get This Right?” as he speaks about building a real resistance in response to the 2016 elections. He talks about mistaking presence for power, the danger he saw in Trump’s racist attacks on President Obama, and how to build a true movement for change. Full speech here.