By Color Of Change staff When travelers use the online booking site Airbnb for their next vacation getaway, they won’t find rental listings for slave cabins on former antebellum plantations. Black and Latino travelers also will find it easier to receive a review as a guest — the lack of which has hampered them from […]
By Color Of Change staff Days after burying their son, the parents of Tyre Nichols, the 29-year-old Black man who died after a savage beating from Memphis police, sat in the U.S. Capitol gallery during President Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech last week. In his speech, Biden mentioned a conversation he had earlier […]
By Liz Courquet-Lesaulnier Ever heard that old saying “crime doesn’t pay”? The American predatory prison services industry knows otherwise. Private corporations, inflating prices on everything from basic hygiene products to health care, rake in $80 billion in profits every year. That money lines the pockets of CEOs and Wall Street shareholders, most of whom are […]
We know who the bad actors are when it comes to trying to erase Black history. So now, let’s come together and celebrate the true champions of Black history — those who are lifting up our history. Color Of Change created an awards ceremony to do just that — and you’re invited. This month, Color […]
Color Of Change report Much ink has been spilled about Twitter in the Elon Musk era. But for Black folks, it’s not just another Silicon Valley saga. The downward spiral of Twitter represents the erosion of a vibrant, sometimes even radical, community: Black Twitter. For a decade and a half, Black Twitter served as a […]
By Aldore Collier Few examples of glaring and enduring racism stand out more than in the motion picture industry, where stereotypes persist on screen and Blacks are underrepresented in the power jobs behind the scenes. So, to promote solutions to decades-old inequities, Color Of Change ventured earlier this month to Park City, Utah, home of […]
By Liz Courquet Lesaunier Back when he was in prison, Reginald Belle knew that if he wanted to phone home, the telecom corporation that connected him to the outside world would charge as much as $1 a minute for the call. At that crazy-high rate, his loved ones told him, their monthly bill sometimes skyrocketed […]
By Aldore Collier The relentless attempts to annihilate Black history from classrooms, ban books by celebrated Black authors such as Toni Morrison and control how Black people can wear their hair will be at the center of Color Of Change’s Black History Now Live discussion series. The series, which is presented in four episodes through […]
Color Of Change report Hundreds of Color Of Change volunteers and community members turned out for “Serve Our Sisters” events in seven cities during the Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday weekend earlier this month to pack care packages for women returning to communities after being incarcerated. Started in 2018, COC’s Serve Our Sisters combines community […]
Color Of Change report If you are among the 28 million households that have watched “Harry & Meghan,” the riveting Netflix docuseries about Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, and the overt racism they have endured from the British media, the royal family and social media, then you caught a […]
Color Of Change Report For years, Google has been putting out its annual “Year in Search,” a video snapshot of the trends in search activity on its site. Earlier this month, a spoof of Google’s video – produced by Color Of Change – caught the tech giant’s attention. The video, called “Hold Google Accountable,” illustrates […]
By Color Of Change Staff We did it! Color Of Change members responded in a big way to the request for donations on Giving Tuesday, which happens each year the Tuesday after Thanksgiving. More than 2,000 donors made gifts to Color Of Change for Giving Tuesday resulting in our largest total gift amount during a […]