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Rashad Robinson, with other progressive leaders, makes the case for what it will take to build a true political revolution after 2016.
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Rashad brings the crowd to their feet at the gala celebrating our “Model Of Change” award winners, and the 10th Anniversary of Color Of Change. (September of 2015)
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Watch ColorOfChange Executive Director Rashad Robinson on CNN discussing the “Ferguson Effect.” “The FBI is an agency that absolutely relies on data. There is absolutely no data to support it [the idea of the “Ferguson effect.”] The fact that the FBI …
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On July 13, Sandra Bland, a 28-year-old black woman, was found dead in her jail cell in Waller County, Texas, three days after being arrested over a traffic stop gone wrong. Sheriff Glenn Smith, who oversees the county jail and had …
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Words matter, and most of the time connotations matter even more than definitions. So when the media started using language dehumanizing New Orleanians, specifically Black people, it helped create a narrative, curiosity and stigma that remain.
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A protester removed a Confederate flag from a pole on the grounds of the state capitol in Columbia, S.C., Saturday and was promptly arrested. It was one of several acts aimed at Confederate flags and memorials.
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We cannot afford to wait another 20 years for comprehensive, public data on how often local, state and federal police use force. Why? Because transparency is key for accountability. For every Mike Brown, Eric Garner, Mya Hall, Yuvette Henderson, Tamir Rice, …
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New York Daily News: The Governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo has the opportunity to impact history by enacting a simple but critical reform in New York, one that the Brooklyn NAACP has advocated for since the 1940s- authorize the appointment …
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ColorOfChange’s new report, NOT TO BE TRUSTED: Dangerous Levels of Inaccuracy in TV Crime Reporting in NYC, reveals a shocking pattern; every major network affiliate in New York City — WABC, WNBC, WCBS, and WNYW/FOX5 — is disproportionately focusing their crime …
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“The Civil Rights Act bans discrimination and discriminatory policing, but a lot of those haven’t been enforced,” said Matt Nelson, the organizing director for Color of Change, a group that works to strengthen African-Americans‰ŰŞ political voice. “We’ve had laws in place, …
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During the 11-day span between the Michael Brown and Eric Garner grand jury decisions late last year‰ŰÓboth cases in which a white police officer killed an unarmed black man and was not criminally charged‰ŰÓmore than 130,000 outraged citizens signed up with …