WEEK 6: Color of Change on Lavena Johnson

http://lavenajohnson.com/colorofchange/



On Color of Change's website, they have a separate url devoted to the Lavena Johnson case and activism towards it. The Color of Change is a website that was established after the disaster of Katrina, and has been tackling issues affecting the black community ever since.

According to the website, the central idea that the website was focused on for a while was the case of the Jena 6 in Louisiana. The main focus of Color of Change is to get people behind their stance so that they can help change the plights that black people face in America, this "free" country.

Color of Change has sent letters to Congress, the only body of government that can challenge the military, asking for a complete investigation of Lavena Johnson's murder. They know that if Congress actually investigates, justice will be served, because there is ridiculous amounts of evidence that point away from the military's ruling and towards the truth, that she was raped, tortured, and murdered. The murder happened in 2005 and Congress has yet to act on it at all. The family of Lavena Johnson has been trying for 3 year to get Congress to do something, and yet they won't. Why not? A United States soldier lost her life, and the Congress can find out how she actually died, but will not. This goes against all of America's principles about everyone being created "equal." If it was a white woman suspected of being raped I bet this would be a much bigger issue, and get much more broadcasting.

Color of Change asks you to read the letter and send your voice to Representative Waxman and the House Committee so that they will maybe contemplate serving justice to a woman who was serving our country proudly, only to be murdered by one of her own.