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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.
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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.
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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.
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“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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A feature on how Color Of Change’s Hollywood team is using racial justice principles to rewrite the rules on representation in reality TV, writers’ rooms, and now children’s blockbuster animation films.
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Color Of Change calls for more regulation of Facebook, pending a civil rights audit, and the firing of Facebook’s lobbyist Joel Kaplan after it was revealed how they hired a PR firm to smear George Soros and several of the progressive organizations he supports to deflect attention from their own wrongdoing.
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Our No Blood Money campaign continues to make waves as payment processors distance themselves from right-wing hate groups and platforms — this time with PayPal cutting off Gab.com in the wake of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting.
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Color Of Change, in partnership with the ACLU and CREDO, is demanding that Greyhound stop letting immigration enforcement on its busses to conduct raids and search passengers.
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COC’s No Blood Money campaign cited as giving rise to a new movement whereby funding is systematically being pulled from white nationalist and hate groups.