Civil Rights Leader
As president of Color of Change, a civil rights advocacy organization focused on bettering the lives of Black Americans, Robinson leads campaigns pursuing criminal justice, voting rights and economic reform.
But after the 2020 police killing of George Floyd and the unrest that followed, his renewed efforts to make the entertainment industry confront its portrayals of cops that had the biggest impact on Hollywood.
Reality shows COPS and Live PD were canceled, and more than a dozen TV shows brought on Color of Change to rethink depictions of policing, the justice system and racism.
Robinson, who previously held a leadership role at GLAAD, wants to see people of color get their due in LGBTQ stories. “I would love to see Stonewall told through the eyes of Marsha P. Johnson, Sylvia Rivera and the other Black and brown gay, trans and nonconforming liberation luminaries who made that moment possible,” he says, “to see a story in which they are the protagonists and fully portrayed.”
