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This feature takes a deep dive into the many issues COC works on — from abusive police tactics to prosecutorial misconduct — that are unearthed in Ava DuVernay’s new Netflix series on the Central Park Five.
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For the third Mother’s Day in a row, Color Of Change supported the Black Mama’s Bail Out, a grassroots effort to bring women home — and amplify calls to end money bail and the growing incarceration of women.
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Years ago, Color Of Change members pressured Fox to pull Cops, the enormously high-rated and racist reality TV show from its network. Now, a new podcast explains how the show created false and dangerous ideals about police and law enforcement, just as we are about to launch our new research report on crime TV shows.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Rashad Robinson explains the growing contradictions — and harms to Black people — when they’re haunted by convictions for a drug that is now considered legal in much of the US. That’s why some state’s attorneys are expunging marijuana charges from people’s records, and in doing so, giving them a fair shot at jobs, housing, and student loans.
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R. Kelly is indicted and turns himself into police custody amid growing calls for justice from Color Of Change and others through our #MuteRKelly campaign, our successful bid to get RCA to drop Kelly from their roster, and the Lifetime docu-series “Surviving R. Kelly,” which we helped promote and has been seen by 45 million people.
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Ebony covers our new podcast series, #TellBlackStories, dedicating to diving into the need for true inclusion in Hollywood and everywhere stories about Black people and our lives are told. Season 1 was shot at the Sundance Film Festival and feature some of the most influential Black directors and writers out there today.