Majority Action and Color Of Change Respond to Proxy Advisor Institutional Shareholder Services’ Recommendation to Facebook Shareholders to Withhold Support from Board Chair Mark Zuckerberg ISS cites lapses in boardroom oversight and dysfunctional governance as leading to controversies undermining Facebook shareholder value WASHINGTON — Today Majority Action and Color Of Change responded to proxy […]
Color Of Change For Immediate Release: April 24, 2019 Media Contact: Michelle Morris, michelle.morris@berlinrosen.com | Kwame Belle, Kwame.belle@berlinrosen.com NEW YORK – In response to the Federal Trade Commission’s fine on Facebook of up to $5 billion, Color Of Change’s Senior Campaign Director Brandi Collins-Dexter issued the following statement: “For too long, Facebook has been able […]
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.“
For Immediate Release MEDIA CONTACT: Troy Blackwell, 646.828.0844 troy.blackwell@berlinrosen.com Color Of Change, the nation’s largest online racial justice organization, issued the following statement demanding that after twenty-four years of wrongful incarceration, North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper, NC Attorney General Josh Stein, and District Attorney Kimberly Robb free Dontae Sharpe, a Black man that has been […]
Color Of Change, the nation’s largest online racial justice organization, and Family Story, an organization dedicated to elevating stories of diverse families, have released a new report, A Dangerous Distortion of Our Families, examining the news media’s systemic and harmful misrepresentation of Black families during the last election cycle. Conducted by the University of Illinois […]
Click here to read ColorOfChange’s full report, Not To Be Trusted: Dangerous Levels of Inaccuracy in TV Crime Reporting in NYC. ColorOfChange partnered with Media Matters for America to study the representation of Black people in local news reporting on crime. The result is an outrageous level of distortion: while 2 out of every 4 […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Michele Setteducato, michele@fitzgibbonmedia.com, 732-614-3818 “Before the summer ended, GA already seemed to be setting into motion a plan to disenfranchise Black voters. From Secretary of State Brian Kemp’s statement to a group of Gwinnett Republicans in which he warned them that work to register minority voters would allow Democrats to win […]
Civil Rights Organization Helps Distribute Music Video Outlining Dangerous, Racially Discriminatory Police Practice
Civil rights organization and daily online magazine will jointly register, educate and mobilize African-American voters
Following last week’s apology, publication responds to over 75,000 ColorOfChange.org members on how it will prevent dehumanizing content in the future.