Hi, John
Juneteenth is a time of celebration!
We hope you’ll read our story, “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
