Justice System
Media & Culture
Economic Justice
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Protecting Black Survivors
Mainstream media has played a foreleading role in shaping harmful narratives around sexual violence. Some media publications opt for clickbait headlines that sensationalize Black trauma, while others adopt victim-blaming language that reinforces race-based sexual stereotypes (e.g. “Jezebel”). This guide offers examples of survivor-affirming language, gender and racial justice framing, and trauma-informed interview techniques to adopt […]
Create Digital Safety
Media & Culture
Economic Justice
Voter Freedom
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Affordable Connectivity Program COC Resources
ACP/BEAD/Broadband Campaign Fact Sheet This sheet provides information around the way Broadband impacts Black American households and the potential of the ACP and BEAD programs to support the fight towards economic justice. ACP Fact Sheet This sheet provides information around enrollment and demographics, consumer benefits, funding, and internet service providers. ACP Slide Decks These slide […]
Media & Culture
Create Digital Safety
Justice System
Economic Justice
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#DefendBlackHistory Storytelling Workshop
During the COC/NEA #DefendBlackHistory Storytelling Workshop, we equipped attendees with the tools they need to show up confidently at local school board and city council meetings to share their stories. Participants learned how to craft their narratives, address the issues at stake, and demand more for our students from their local school boards. Resources from the […]
Media & Culture
Economic Justice
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#DefendBlackHistory School Board Training
In the Color Of Change/National Education Association #DefendBlackHistory School Board Training, we talk about the role and power of local school boards in your children’s education and how to organize your network to make your voice heard during local school board public comment periods. Opening remarks are offered by COC President Rashad Robinson and NEA […]
Justice System
Economic Justice
Narrative Report
Research Report
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Ending Carceral Profiteering
Color Of Change and Worth Rises call on the Biden-Harris Administration to end carceral profiteering using existing levers we identify in this blueprint.
Create Digital Safety
Toolkit
BEYOND THE STATEMENT: TECH FRAMEWORK
Big Tech’s unregulated power has gone on for too long — and Black people have faced harm online because of it. Color Of Change demands an end to the tech industry’s damages through independent racial equity audits and widespread accountability. We have now developed an affirmative framework that guides tech corporations in the journey to […]
Media & Culture
Economic Justice
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Narrative Matters: A Guide to Covering Protests
Anti-racist Protest Reporting & Protecting Black Reporters This year marked a new era of mass protest. The Black Lives Matter protests of the 2010s culminated with the largest uprising for any cause in American history: more than 20 million people took to the streets to demand accountability for police violence, justice for Black people killed […]
Media & Culture
Economic Justice
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CHANGING THE NARRATIVE ABOUT BLACK FAMILIES
Authors: Color Of Change and Family Story This guide identifies inaccurate and biased terms and narratives that are used to undermine the success and wellbeing of Black families in society. These are terms and narratives that result in real harm: society unfairly judging and punishing Black families according to a set of rules that white […]
Justice System
Economic Justice
Research Report
TELLING THE RIGHT STORY ON RACE DURING COVID-19
Rashad Robinson developed a narrative guide for effectively advancing racial justice when communicating about COVID-19. The guide offers examples for what to say (and not to say) when talking about realities, causes and solutions related to racial injustice. You can read and download the guide here, and also watch a presentation (with Q&A) that Rashad […]
Media & Culture
Research Report
NORMALIZING INJUSTICE
THE DANGEROUS MISREPRESENTATIONS THAT DEFINE TELEVISION’S SCRIPTED CRIME GENRE A Comprehensive Study of How Television’s Most Popular Genre Excludes Writers of Color, Miseducates People about the Criminal Justice System and Makes Racial Injustice Acceptable.
