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OP-ED: I’m Happy to Boycott Chick-fil-A – But that Doesn’t Make Popeyes Progressive

Rashad’s latest column in the Guardian breaks down why it’s a mistake to assume that Popeyes, or any corporation, is truly a part of our movement for fair wages, fair treatment of workers, racial justice and equality. “Corporations use woke’ness like they use blackness and everything else: to them it’s a commodity, to be used if it helps turn a profit and discarded if it does not.”

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Black Census Project Shows You Can’t Take Black Voters for Granted

The inaugural Black Census Project found that many Black Americans don’t think politicians care much about their issues and communities. The project and its supporters — from Black Lives Matter found Alicia Garza to Color Of Change President Rashad Robinson — plan to change that.

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Civil Rights Leaders Dine with Zuckerberg, Press Him on Facebook’s Political Ads

Rashad Robinson reports back on a meeting between civil rights leaders and Facebook CEO Marc Zuckerberg. Voter suppression in the 2020 elections was one of the main topics of discussion. Robinson says they pressed Zuckerberg on Facebook’s political ad policy and ways it could undermine recent progress to reign in hate speech and misinformation on the site.

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White Ex-Officer’s Guilty Verdict Stuns Some Black Advocates

Racial justice advocates across the country celebrate after a Dallas jury convicted police officer Amber Guyger for shooting and killing her Black neighbor Jean Botham in his home after she supposedly mistook his apartment for her own. This was a rare example of an officer being held responsible for taking an unarmed Black person’s life. Rashad is quoted, “We have a long history in this county of white women’s tears and fear being an excuse for harming and killing Black people.”

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Color Of Change Demands Comcast Withdraw Supreme Court Challenge to Civil Rights Act of 1866

Our campaign to pressure Comcast to stand by its Black customers and pull support from the DOJ’s challenge to our country’s oldest civil rights protections is discussed here. “Without this landmark legislation, grounds of racial discrimination in business matters will be lost in legal technicalities, causing tremendous harm to Black people.”

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PROFILE: An Activist for a Young Generation

Our very own Rashad Robinson is profiled in this piece on how COC is using traditional civil rights movement tactics alongside a new media savvy to take on big tech companies — and change some of their worst policies and practices harming Black people.

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A Flimsy Case Dismissed

Since “When They See Us” aired on Netflix this summer, its portrayal of prosecutorial misconduct fueled a call by activists to have the Manhattan DA’s Office reopen every case Linda Fairstein was involved while running the Sex-Crimes Unit. Malachi Robinson with COC is quoted, “We know if there’s one case of injustice, there’s likely more.”

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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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