[ [link removed]- ]Celebrate Juneteenth With Color Of Change

Hi, John

Juneteenth is a time of celebration!

We hope you’ll read our story, [ [link removed]- ]“Juneteenth: How Misinformation Shapes
Our Past and Present.” It highlights many of our powerful campaigns to
fight misinformation and disinformation that impact myriad areas in our
lives.

But as you enjoy this national holiday, John, we hope you will
pause for a moment and reflect on how the history of Juneteenth is a prime
example of how power brokers have deliberately used misinformation and
disinformation to continue to profit off the backs of Black people. When
slave owners failed to tell enslaved people in Texas about the
Emancipation Proclamation, or that the Civil War had ended and the Union
won, they forced Black people to remain in bondage more than two years
after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued in 1863 — and more than two
months after the South surrendered, ending the war in April 1865.

Today, powerful people are still using misinformation and disinformation
to try to withhold the truth and to keep Black people and Black
communities down. But Color Of Change is working to combat these forces —
from fighting book bans aimed at keeping Black history out of classrooms
and libraries to battling the spread of racial hatred on Twitter and other
social media platforms — and you can join the fight.

We hope you’ll join our efforts. With your help, Color Of Change can
continue our work today to create a more human and less hostile world for
Black people.

Until Justice Is Real,

The Color Of Change Team



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