Color Of Change | We help you do something real about injustice.

Color Of Change | We help you do something real about injustice.

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Color Of Change helps people respond effectively to injustice in the world around us. As a national online force driven by 7 million members, we move decision makers in corporations and government to create a more human and less hostile world for Black people, and all people. Until justice is real.

People across the country are reeling at the Supreme Courts 6-3 decision to overturn Roe and what it will mean for womens rights, privacy, and access to healthcare, especially in conservative states. Color Of Change President Rashad Robinson is quoted, The court has no right to coerce Black people into parenting, especially given Americas long history of criminalizing Black bodies and communities. Black people, already profoundly impacted by abortion bans and disproportionately criminalized by the legal system, are sure to face the harshest levels of prosecution following todays decision. He continued, Black peoples lives are at stake. Nothing will stop us from fighting for our freedom and continuing to build power for ourselves and our families.

Civil rights groups including Color Of Change, Black Voters Matter, and Human Rights Watch are pressing President Biden to use his executive authority to form a federal commission to study and develop reparations proposals for African Americans. Legislation calling for similar action has been stalled in Congress for a year. Republicans stranglehold on the Senate and looming midterms make it almost impossible Democrats will pass legislation this session. The coalition wrote to Biden, Juneteenth is an important opportunity to commemorate the end of enslavement while recognizing much more needs to be done to create equity. The racial wealth gap remains vast, with white households having a median of $188,200 and Black households $24,100, a vestige of the legacy of enslavementand the failure to address the exploitation, segregation, and violence unleashed on Black people that followed.

Video shows Patrick Lyoya disobeyed an officer during an April 4 traffic stop, tried to run, then wrestled with the officer over his Taser before the officer fatally shot him in Grand Rapids, Michigan. For a number of Black men and women, actions perceived as resisting arrest during minor traffic stops lead to their deaths. Color Of Changes Sr. Director of Criminal Justice Scott Roberts is quoted. Looking at police culture, there is pushback on the notion that policing is rooted in white supremacy and has been a tool of white supremacy. And so there is a kind of denial of why Black people would have that fear. Youve already criminalized the person when youre making a pre-textual stop. Your assumption is going to be that this is only a confirmation of their guilt, that fear. Roberts added that these dynamics have increasingly led cities, prosecutors, and police to enact policies to end stops for minor infractions.

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Color Of Change | We help you do something real about injustice.