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OP-ED: We Can’t Trust Police to Protect Us from Racist Violence

Rashad Robinson writes about how white nationalists in the police forces, and why it’s so important to continue fighting for police accountability in the wake of this month’s mass shootings. “If people in law enforcement want to be seen as experts on defeating white nationalism, shouldn’t they have to get rid of all the white nationalists in their own ranks first?”

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Facebook’s Political Bias Review Tries to Understand Why Conservatives Don’t Trust It

A new report on whether Facebook demotes conservative content ignores basic truths about how the platform hurts people of color. Rashad Robinson is quoted: “Claims of anticonservative bias are simply an attempt to distract users and the media from the conservative movement’s attacks against black communities and other marginalized groups.”

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Dems Struggle to Reach Black Millennials

Rashad Robinson is quoted in this article about how the Democrats are lagging in a real strategy to reach young, Black voters — and why it matters. “Donald Trump’s campaign is handing out literature in black barbershops right now; they’re doing micro-targeting on Facebook and have a digital strategy to engage black folks,” he said.

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Listen to Black Voters: Put Economic Justice First

Color Of Change collaborated with Demos, SocioAnalytica, and Black Futures Lab on research and polling on what Black voters want from their politicians. The Black Census Project is the “largest survey of Black people conducted in the US since Reconstruction.”

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OP-ED: Democrats Heard Our Message of Racial Justice. When Will Corporations Listen?

In his monthly column, Rashad Robinson writes about how in politics we’re seeing the Democratic party take racial justice seriously — but in the corporate sector, we still have a long way to go. Many corporations continue to support and enable Trump going into 2020.

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Progressives Lay Out Racial Justice Strategy to Win Over Working-Class Whites

Rashad Robinson is quoted on how while Democrats worry about how to woo white voters that supposedly cost them the election in 2016, they are also waking up to the idea that they cannot win the presidency without mobilizing Black voters — and they cannot do that without talking about race.

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Have Americans Lost Interest in Real Police Reform?

This article discusses COC’s solutions for systems change to stop police violence from undoing policies that incentivize brutality to creating a database that tracks use of force by officers. Too often, killings are attributed to “one bad apple” cop when in truth, police violence against communities of color is systemic and this narrative does little to fuel change.

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OP-ED: District Attorneys Must Protect Abortion Access

Arisha Hatch, COC’s managing director of campaigns, explains how District Attorneys are an important way to protect women’s rights in the latest assault on abortion and choice. COC is running a campaign to fight back against the newest laws, which will undoubtedly be used against Black and Brown women, low-income women, and women suffering miscarriages.

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Harris County Approves Historic Bail Deal, Ends ‘Irreparable Harm’

Our criminal justice campaigns director Scott Roberts applauds a new settlement to fix Houston’s bail system and address racial disparities. “Cash bail has for too long disproportionately harmed Black families, as thousands are confined to a jail cell solely because they cannot pay to be released. These individuals lose their jobs, their homes and their children.”

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Why Democrats Are Unsure About How to Confront Trump’s Race-Baiting

Rashad is quoted in this NY Times article on how, for Democrats, success means not just opposing Trump but building a ticket and platform progressives can get excited about. “Democrats can’t simply rely on people’s hate for Trump for being the aspirational thing that turns people out. When black people’s numbers surged in 2012, it wasn’t because they hated Mitt Romney.”

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Privacy Group Asks Court to Reconsider FTC’s $5B Facebook Deal

Our Sr. Campaign Director Brandi Collins-Dexter quoted in this article of holding Facebook accountable its wrongdoings. “The public has a right to know what laws Facebook violated. Corporations should face consequences for violating the public trust, not be given a rubber stamp to carry out business as usual.”

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VIDEO: Do You Feel Unsafe Around White People?

Rashad guest stars on BET’s Black Coffee to discuss the racially-motivated killing of 17-year-old Elijah Al-Amin, the fourth anniversary of Sandra Bland’s death — and our country’s history of harassing, intimidating, and endangering Black people.

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