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Education Under Arrest: Taking America Out of Its Comfort Zone

Education Under Arrest: Taking America Out of Its Comfort Zone

    We had to shut the cameras down for a moment. The testimony of the two New Orleans sisters, Kenyatta, 15, and Kennisha, 17, was too surreal, too emotional and too raw. Kenyatta was involved in a fight at school that she didn’t start. Because of “zero tolerance” policies adopted at their high school [...]

Right Wing Rehashes Old News With 2007 Obama Hurricane Katrina Video

Right Wing Rehashes Old News With 2007 Obama Hurricane Katrina Video

In a video dredged up by right wing blog The Daily Caller, presidential candidate Barack Obama speaks to an audience of black ministers, including Rev. Jeremiah Wright, and touches on Hurricane Katrina. “The people down in New Orleans they don’t care about as much” says Obama. He goes on to point out the difference between the government’s [...]

Infant and 4-Year Old Watch Their Parents Die in a Hail of Gunfire

Infant and 4-Year Old Watch Their Parents Die in a Hail of Gunfire

A baby and four year old were spared while their parents were murdered in a hail of gunfire in New Orleans.  The children were forced to watch their parents die on the highway and the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office is still looking for the killers. Willie Odom and Shawna Girod were the two victims of [...]

Obama: America Needs Some “Soul Searching”

Obama: America Needs Some “Soul Searching”

President Obama said Monday that shootings like the one at the Sikh Temple are occurring with “too much regularity”, and should ignite some soul searching for Americans. “All of us are heart-broken by what happened,” Obama told reporters at the White House a day after an alleged white supremacist opened fire on Sikh worshipers, murdering [...]

ColorOfChange applauds Kaplan for announcing it's left ALEC

ColorOfChange applauds Kaplan for announcing it’s left ALEC

NYT editorial highlights our ALEC campaign

NYT editorial highlights our ALEC campaign

ColorOfChange applauds Wendy's decision to cut ties with ALEC

ColorOfChange applauds Wendy’s decision to cut ties with ALEC

Connecticut poised to repeal the death penalty

Connecticut poised to repeal the death penalty

Rally in DC: ALEC's gun laws & the killing of Trayvon Martin

Rally in DC: ALEC’s gun laws & the killing of Trayvon Martin

In memory of Trayvon: ColorOfChange launches a new site

In memory of Trayvon: ColorOfChange launches a new site

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