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John,
5 years ago, Mike Brown's body was left for 4 hours in the middle of the road after being murdered by a rogue police officer in Ferguson, Missouri.
The palpable outrage felt across the nation turned into one of the most powerful uprisings against Black oppression in recent times. Black people across the nation joined a powerful movement to stand up against police brutality, systemic oppression, political corruption, and white supremacy.
The weeks-long Ferguson Protests inspired an entire generation of people and put on display Black peoples’ resiliency and willingness to put our bodies on the line for justice. Regular folks became freedom fighters that day. Ferguson is a historic moment that follows in the legacy of civil rights fights like the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Bloody Sunday in Selma, and the Chicago Freedom Movement. These pivotal points in civil rights history were times when Black people rallied against institutionalized violence caused by centuries of segregation, inequality, and state-sanctioned violence. The fire that the nation felt from Black people during the Ferguson Protests is still burning and the movement continues.
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We fought to turn Ferguson from a moment to a movement. We fought to unseat Bob McCulloch, the prosecutor who failed to press charges against the officer who murdered Mike Brown in St. Louis. Wesley Bell, a Black reform-minded prosecutor now sits in that position and a new wave of district attorneys running on reform platforms across the country have been elected to office. We’ve successfully been fighting to hold all of them accountable to the promises they made to Black people during their campaigns.
While we have accomplished so much, we still have so much further to go. Our vision at Color Of Change is guided by the resiliency and efforts of activists, organizers, and communities in Ferguson. We’re centering Black women in all the work we do by fighting for the rights of pregnant women, Black trans women, and incarcerated Black women. We’re working to hold elected leaders and politicians accountable to Black people so they know there are consequences for letting us down. We’re fighting for incarcerated children just as hard as adults. And we’re exposing injustices in the criminal legal system at every level so our members have the tools they need to fight injustices in their own communities.
In the words of civil rights leader A. Philip Randolph, “Freedom is never given; it is won.” We owe it to the Black people we’ve lost during this movement to continue fighting and pushing beyond what we think is possible in the name of Black freedom and justice. We are up against powerful people who want to stop our movement, so your support is needed to keep the movement going.
Join and support the movement.
Until justice is real,
--Scott, Rashad, Arisha, Erika, Clarise, Marybeth, Marena, Leonard, Madison, Tamar, and the rest of the Color of Change team
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