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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.
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.“