Color Of Change’s successful campaign to get 21 Savage released is cited in this article that explores how pro-immigrant group tend to exclude Black immigrants, and the racist reasons the media isn’t making the connection 21 Savage’s story and that of the “Dreamers.”
Watch this short video on Facebook’s failing record on civil rights and privacy — from how its algorithms exploit racial divisions to how it continues to rampantly share users’ data.
As Color Of Change pushes Facebook to publicly release findings of their civil rights audit, which we demanded they undertake, more and more organizations are expressing their unhappiness at how Facebook treats people of color on its platform.
Color of Change’s Clarise McCants explains how the use of a computer algorithm to determine sentencing is racist. We break down the PA Commission on Sentencing’s risk assessment tool, meant to predict a person’s potential for future criminality.
Rashad Robinson quoted in this article on how Russian posts have exploited the gap between the perception of America as a land of the free and the reality of how Black people are treated. “Two things are really clear to me. The first is how much better the Russians understand black people than Facebook, the Democratic Party or many other Americans do.“
This article on money bail cites our 2017 report with the ACLU that shows 70% of people in local jails have not been found guilty of a crime, and a whopping 60% of those in jail are there because they can’t afford bail.
COC campaign director Clarise McCants explains how risk assessment tools just reinforce the racist bias already present in our prison system. And she says that such a tool would have failed her own mother, who found her way back from violence and abuse.
Color Of Change received threats tied to its relationship with George Soros after Facebook hired a right-wing PR firm to deflect from the company’s own misdoings by launching a smear campaign against its critics, which includes COC for its work on Net neutrality. Rashad Robinson responds to the anti-Semitic, anti-Black nature of these efforts to paint progressive groups as being a pawn of Soros, who is a funder of COC as is Facebook executive Dustin Moskovitz.
“Ralph Breaks the Internet,” starring a number of strong female characters, hit movie theaters this month. Earlier this year, Color Of Change successfully pressed Disney, alongside actress Anika Noni Rose, to ensure Princess Tiana – a favorite from the first film in the series – was not whitewashed and remained an inspiring Black character.
Rashad Robinson’s op-ed on how Facebook tried to smear George Soros to deflect attention from their role in allowing hate speech to spread and fake news to influence US elections. This tactic is increasingly used to discredit progressive groups while allowing right-wing speech and violence to move further into the mainstream.
Rashad Robinson quoted, after a jury convicted the police officer who killed Laquan Macdonald, on how we are starting to see glimmers of accountability and justice in police brutality cases. The cop was the first to be convicted of murder for an on-duty shooting in 48 years.
A feature, citing Color Of Change’s work to end money bail, on how millions of people are locked up every year because they cannot afford bail though they have not been convicted of a crime. In recent years, COC and our partners have helped make this issue a major rallying cry in the criminal justice reform movement.