L.A. City Council President Forced Out After Taped Anti-Black Remarks Leaked When an audio recording of three members of Los Angeles City Council making crude and anti-Black comments was leaked and posted to social media and printed in the Los Angeles Times, Angelenos were outraged. The torrent of racial insults, made by City Council President […]
Rashad Robinson, president of Color Of Change, recently spoke on a National Town Hall panel at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s 51st Annual Legislative Conference in Washington. The conference theme: “Advancing Our Purpose, Elevating Our Power.” More than 10,000 people attended the weekend event held Sept. 28 through Oct. 2 in Washington. The town hall […]
Color Of Change contributor report In recent years, critical race theory — the law school-level academic concept that racism is embedded in American systems and government policies — became a powerful motivator for politicians who want to fire up their base. Fear of it being taught in public K-12 schools drove angry white parents to […]
Color Of Change contributor report In 2020, pro-democracy activists and local organizers helped make voting more accessible to a wider range of people — including expanding early voting as well as creating options for mail-in voting and neighborhood ballot drop boxes. The result: Increased voter turnout, Democratic control of both houses of Congress and […]
By Gaby Galvin Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has dismantled Roe v. Wade in a bombshell decision — and some states have banned abortion completely — reproductive justice advocates are making the link between abortion access, civil rights and democracy. They say that there is some overlap between state laws making it harder to […]
“At Color Of Change, we stand up for victims.” That fact, expressed by Sakira Cook, Color Of Change’s co-interim vice president for policy and government affairs, is recognized by the Biden Administration. Cook and COC President Rashad Robinson were invited to represent Color Of Change, the nation’s largest online racial justice organization, and its 7 […]
Housing justice for Tampa families When Palm Communities LLC took over management of the Holly Court Apartments in Tampa, Florida, and attempted to unfairly evict families with long-term leases earlier this year, Color Of Change mobilized. The leasing company was flooded with calls, text messages and petitions from COC members demanding that tenants be kept […]
We welcome Dr. Safiya U. Noble, an internet studies scholar and professor of gender studies and African American studies at UCLA, to the Color Of Change Board of Directors. Dr. Noble, co-founder and co-director of the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry, joined the COC board in June 2022. She is the best-selling author of […]
Lessons for back to school Black history always has been American history. And Color Of Change is determined to fight right-wing forces that seek to separate Black history from American history and to demonize award-winning writers like Toni Morrison who tell Black stories. Unfortunately, as thousands of students return to schools this fall, they will […]
Arisha Hatch & Terri Gerstein look at how we’re pushing pushing prosecutors to embrace agenda aimed at reforming and fixing our criminal justice system, and collaborating with attorneys general to protect working people.
Their full piece is available in the Stanford Social Innovation Review at https://ssir.org/articles/entry/re_envisioning_the_roles_of_prosecutors_and_attorneys_general_to_make_the_justice_system_work_for_everyone
Rashad is interviewed on Sirius Radio’sthe Madison Show. He’d heard that judges have begun directing juries to disregard what they see on TV when it comes to the law …. so Color Of Change started to investigate what kinds of misinformation we get from crime shows.
The full show is up at https://soundcloud.com/siriusxm-news-issues/rashad-robinson-discusses-a-study-on-crime-tv-and-racism
In this op-ed by Color Of Change’s Brandi Dexter-Collins, published in Pop Sugar, we talk about standing up to sexual assault against Black girls, our campaigns against R. Kelly, and partnering with Lifetime on a new series to lifts up the voices of the women who survived years of his abuse.