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Almost five years after Flint’s water crisis, on World Water Day, activists and Color Of Change’s members delivered a petition with 15,000 signatures to Flint City Hall, calling for more to be done to help city residents recover from Flint’s lead-tainted tap water crisis.
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Democratic contenders from Elizabeth Warren to Julian Castro have reached out to Color Of Change to talk ending money bail, criminal justice reform, and other issues affecting Black people in their attempt to figure out how to build allegiance with Black voters. “I think some of the candidates don’t get that they’re going to have to actually come with a bold agenda,” Rashad Robinson said.
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Immigrant 21 Savage is granted bond and released ahead of schedule after Color Of Change, alongside Black Lives Matter and the Black Alliance for Just Immigration attended a rally in Atlanta and sent ICE a petition with over 450,000 signatures demanding his release.
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Color Of Change’s work is cited as pivotal in getting the FTC to bump up the fines that Facebook is facing for privacy violations and a series of ethically questionable practices. The FTC may well levy Facebook with biggest fine of any tech company to date.
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Color Of Change’s Brandi Dexter-Collins talks about standing up to sexual assault, our latest successful campaign 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.
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Rashad Robinson and Jose Antonio Vargas discuss how the detention of 21 Savage is the latest example of US government targeting immigrants and minorities for political gain while pretending it’s a matter of border security.
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Color Of Change, the American Civil Liberties Union, and 40 other groups delivered an open letter to prioritize civil rights as they draft long overdue data privacy legislation.
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Color Of Change drew attention to the conspicuous silence around 21 Savage’s absented at the Grammy’s. Savage was nominated for 2 Grammy’s and was slated to perform “This Is America” at the awards show before ICE officials detained him, many believe for his outspoken political views.
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Our research is cited in this article on how the government shutdown may be shifting perceptions of poverty. In a review of local and national news stories, we found that Black families represented 59 percent of the poor in the news but only made up 27 percent of the nation’s poor in real life.
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This op-ed by Rashad Robinson and Reverend William Barber explains what we are doing to put political and economic pressure on the corporations enabling voter suppression — and what it’ll take to overcome the forces keeping people of color’s and poor people’s votes from counting.
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Color of Change launches BlackWomenToo.com alongside Lifetime’s “Surviving R. Kelly” series, breaking down systems inside the music industry and criminal justice system that allowed R. Kelly’s career to continue to flourish long after his history of abusing of women and girls was exposed.
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Our campaign to get R. Kelly’s catalog removed from streaming platforms is cited as a key motivator in getting Spotify to implement a new mute button that lets user block artists they take issue with. Throughout his career many Black women have come forward to say they were sexually abused by Kelly, often as young girls.