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Job or Health? Restarting the Economy Threatens to Worsen Economic Inequality

The pandemic has worse race and class divides in America. As work restrictions loosen another gap is emerging, between people with the power to control their exposure and those mostly Black and Brown workers forced to choose between potential sickness or certain poverty. As Rashad is quoted, “The inequality we’re seeing isn’t unfortunate like a car accident. It’s unjust. It’s being manufactured through a whole set of choices.”

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A Short Jail Stay Could Turn into a Death Sentence During COVID-19

Forbes lifts up our #FreeBlackMamas National Bailout, an effort Color Of Change participates in each year to raise bail funds and bring women home now. So many people in jail are there not because they’ve done anything wrong, but because they can’t afford to pay their way out. Women lose jobs, parental rights, and during the pandemic, staying out of jail is a matter of basic safety. That’s why Forbes features the National Bailout in their COVID-19 Giving Guide.

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Racial Slurs & Swastikas Fuel Civil Rights Pressure On Zoom

As more of daily life moves onto Zoom, harassers have begun taking their racial and sexist slurs there with “Zoombombing.” Color Of Change met with executives at Zoom to expose organized attacks on users and get the company to release a plan to stop racial harassment, step up security, and hire a Chief Diversity Officer. Rashad is quoted on how serious the attacks are. “Black women are having a church gathering [on Zoom], and have people come in drawing genitalia and calling them the N-word.”

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Black Communities Are on the ‘Frontline’ of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Here’s Why

The Root’s latest article is a hard-hitting expose on how, from pushing Black people into more polluted, less desirable neighborhoods with less services, healthcare, and quality food, societal inequities guaranteed people of color would be hit hardest by COVID-19. Rashad is quoted, “Poverty and inequality [are] not unfortunate, like a car accident. They are manufactured by those in power. Unless we do something to change the rules and change the dynamics, they will continue to use this moment to manufacture more.”

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Jim Clyburn Changed Everything for Joe Biden’s Campaign

Rashad Robinson is quoted in this profile on Jim Clyburn, the lawmaker who helped deliver the Black vote to Joe Biden in South Carolina. “The primary results underscored lessons candidates would do well to heed: Black voters can make or break a campaign. From Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar dropping out after seeing no pathway to the Black vote after South Carolina, to Biden taking home many Southern states, the message is clear.”

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Criminal Justice Groups Take Aim at NY Governor’s Plan to Roll Back Bail Reform

Amid COVID-19 and heated budget negotiations, New York is quietly trying to undo reforms to end money bail. Color Of Change’s Criminal Justice Campaign Director Clarise McCants is quoted, “What Gov. Cuomo is proposing will send legally innocent people into jails to die. With the horrific conditions we’re seeing at jails across the state, anything but getting people out of those cages is a death sentence.”

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You Need to Care About the Census, Now More then Ever

Color Of Change’s Senior Director of Digital Engagement & Democracy Jennifer Edwards explains why it’s so important to be part of the 2020 Census and how it’s the young, the poor, and people of color who get passed over. More than 800,000 Black people were missed in 2010 which robs our community of investment in public education, roads, services, and most importantly, political power. Get counted today at my2020census.gov.

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Coronavirus Pandemic and Black People: An Action Plan to Protect Our Community

In his augural COVID-19 column with BET, Color Of Change President Rashad Robinson explains the adage that “When America gets a cold, Black people get the flu.” And the coronavirus is no ordinary flu. This pandemic is a public and financial crisis for Black people, but we have the power to help one another get the care and support we need.

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Rikers Island Inmate Details Coronavirus Fears

People in prison are sitting ducks when it comes to COVID-19 outbreaks. Behind bars, testing and healthcare is lacking, and the idea of staying 6 feet apart is a joke. That’s why Color Of Change is pressuring prisons to let people out now, before disaster hits. Our Criminal Justice Campaign Director Malachi Robinson is quoted, “There’s going to be a huge explosion of cases. Rather than expose more people, they should start releasing them swiftly.”

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Activists Are Not Happy With New York’s Plan to Use Prison Labor to Make Hand Sanitizer

In New York, with national shortages of hand sanitizer in the face of COVID-19, the governor has ordered people in prison to make 100,000 gallons of it to be distributed to New Yorkers for free. But with the prisons facing their own coronavirus crisis, the people making the hand sanitizer can’t even use it themselves.

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Racial Health Disparities: How Coronavirus Affects Black People

Coronavirus illuminates the inequalities and cracks in our healthcare system. Rashad is quoted, “After years of Republicans, big pharma and major corporations fighting against paid sick leave legislation and medicare for all we are left with a crisis where disproportionately Black low wage workers are continuing to support the public without the health insurance or paid time off.”

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Social Networks Haven’t Done Enough to Prevent Voter Manipulation, Tech Leaders Say

According to a new survey conducted by the Technology 202, experts say social networks – especially Facebook, Youtube, and Twitter – haven’t done near enough to prevent voter manipulation as we enter a major election year. And we know disinformation online disproportionately affects people of color, as Rashad is quoted here saying.

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