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ColorOfChange.org exists to strengthen Black America's political voice. Our goal is to empower our members - Black Americans and our allies - to make government more responsive to the concerns of Black Americans and to bring about positive political and social change for everyone.

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  • 9 Ways The Federal Government Can Help End Police Brutality

    We are in a historic time and national leaders are more engaged with the crisis of systemic police violence and discrimination than they have been in years. A nationwide movement led by courageous Black and brown youth working to end police brutality is gaining stronger by the minute. 2015 is the year of change. President Obama, Attorney General Holder, and the federal government must do more than acknowledge today's crisis — they must do everything in their power to end it. Here are 9 concrete ways that federal officials can — and must — help end police brutality and protect Black lives today.

  • Five Times NYPD Officers Were Caught On Camera Applying Illegal Chokeholds

    Eric Garner — a Black Staten Island husband and father — was violently choked to death by New York City Police Department (NYPD) officers last month and the entire brutal altercation was caught on tape. Over the last few months, there have been several high profile incidents involving NYPD officers using illegal chokeholds and excessive force. But despite the prohibition against chokeholds, the police union have slammed the official autopsy report of Garner’s death calling it “political,” and accused Mayor Bill de Blasio, the press, and civil rights groups of distorting the facts. The police union wants to blame everyone including Garner who is the victim of abusive policing to distract from the real facts and issues. Which are: ‪#‎BrokenWindows‬ and discriminatory policing has real and deadly consequences and chokeholds have been illegal in NYC for 20 years. While you may have heard about the tragic police killing of Eric Garner, here are four other brutal encounters with police that you should know about.

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