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What is Hurricane Katrina.
Color Of Change started 11 years ago in direct response to this national tragedy.
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What is Being Mary Jane
Color Of Change was featured in a storyline of this show- Rashad was originally slated to make a cameo on the show but ended up being too busy!
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What is GLAAD (Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation)
Before coming to Color Of Change, our President Rashad Robinson served as Communications Director of this prominent social justice organization.
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What is Uber
This company was the first to quit Trump's Economic Council following pressure from Color Of Change.
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What is Kanye Was Right.
The very first Color Of Change email said this in the subject line.
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Who is Ava Duvernay
This film and television director donated the proceeds from her sold out Barbie Doll to Color Of Change.
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Who is Arisha Hatch
After sneaking into their session at a conference, President Obama quoted this Color Of Change staffer later in his speech at the event.
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What is Saturday Night Live
Color Of Change played a major role in helping to diversify what well known TV Show? Hint- prior to Color Of Change’s intervention, this show had only casted four Black women in it’s then 40 year history.
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What is Jena Six
Color Of Change gained prominence with its campaign to bring to national spotlight the case of this group of Black teenagers, as part of that work we raised over $200k through online donations: funding a new legal team and forcing abusive local officials to face national scrutiny.
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Who is Mark Ruffalo
This “Avenger” is one of our members and one of our highest action takers, we also worked with them on our Flint and #OscarsSoWhite campaigns.
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Who is Johnny Mathias
This COC staffer writes an annual end of year fundraising email titled "Dear White People."
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What is Coca Cola
This corporation became the very first one to leave the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) under pressure from Color Of Change- they were also the first corporation to pull out of 2016 Republican National Convention due to our efforts.
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Who is MC Hammer
This Oakland rapper was one of our first major individual funders and legacy color of change member.
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Who is Michael B Jordan
This star joined Color Of Change PAC to knock doors with Jenni and Arisha during the 2018 Gubernatorial election in Georgia.
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What is SEIU
Senior Campaign Director Jade Magnus Ogunnaike worked at this organization before joining COC.
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What is the FBI and DHS
During the Obama administration, Color Of Change filed a lawsuit against these two government departments for the surveillance of Black activists and organizers.
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What is Detroit
The inaugural Black Women’s Brunch was held in this city.
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Who are Ava DuVernay, Lupita Nyong’o, Taraji P. Henson
These three Oscar-nominated women are on our mailing list.
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What is 2012 (Johnny Mathias)
What year did the did the Dream Team's most veteran staffer join Color Of Change.
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Who is Rep Bobby Rush
This US Representative wrote a scathing OPed titled “Make No Mistake, Color Of Change Does Not Represent Black Interests” about our support of net neutrality.
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