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Posted March 21st, 2012 by Dani McClain
Since Monday, more than 90,000 of our members have taken action, calling on the Department of Justice to take over Trayvon Martin’s case, arrest his killer, and launch an independent investigation into the Sanford police department’s initial mishandling of the case. The senseless killing of the 17-year-old boy has been a tragic reminder of the fears Black folks [...]
Posted February 17th, 2012 by Dani McClain
XXL Magazine has published a video of a 45-year-old rapper encouraging teenage boys to force themselves on underage girls. The graphic monologue is disturbing. So is the willingness of Harris Publications, which owns XXL, to give this kind of dangerous rhetoric a platform. The ColorOfChange community is calling on Harris Publications to fire XXL Editor-in-Chief [...]
Posted September 8th, 2011 by Dani McClain
ColorOfChange.org and Change.org flooded Ohio Governor’s Office with Hundreds of Calls Demanding a Pardon ColorOfChange.org, the nation’s largest online African-American political organization, today applauded Ohio Governor John Kasich’s decision to grant Kelley Williams-Bolar executive clemency, reducing her felony convictions to first-degree misdemeanors. The single mother had been convicted after allegedly misleading authorities and sending her [...]
Posted August 25th, 2011 by Dani McClain
Any day now, Ohio’s parole board is expected to make a recommendation in the case of Kelley Williams-Bolar. You may remember Williams-Bolar from the flurry of media attention she received early this year when she was convicted on felony charges and sentenced to 10 days in jail, two years of probation and 80 hours of [...]
