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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.
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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.