Evidence Over Corporate PR
We rely on public records, not corporate promises. Company statements show what businesses say; federal agencies, courts, and other public records help show what they have actually done.
About us
Companies make claims.
We keep the record.
TheBlackCAT is the Black Corporate Accountability Tracker, created by Color Of Change.
It gives the public a clear, documented account of how companies treat Black people. Our first release focuses on the treatment of Black workers.
Search for a company. See what federal agencies and courts have documented. Read it in plain language. Follow every claim back to its original source. Then decide what you want to do about it.
Why the Black CAT
We bring evidence you can trust
Traceable Records
Every claim links to its source and explains what the evidence proves. We distinguish allegations from findings, settlements from admissions, and weigh each type of evidence appropriately.
Transparent Limitations
Public records have limits. Some companies face less scrutiny, some disputes stay private, and many harms are never reported. When evidence is too limited, we say so.
Human Oversight
AI helps us find, organize, and process large volumes of information. People at Color Of Change review what appears on BlackCAT and make the final call about what the evidence says.
Who we are
Color Of Change is the nation’s largest online racial justice organization, powered by seven million members.
For 20 years, we have organized people to press corporations and government officials to make decisions that improve Black people’s lives.
Color Of Change was founded in 2005, after Hurricane Katrina exposed, in full public view, how readily the government could abandon Black communities. Van Jones and James Rucker believed Black people needed a faster, more powerful way to act together. Color Of Change was built to provide it.
Our independence matters
Color Of Change does not accept corporate funding. Companies cannot pay for access, favorable treatment, or a better record on TheBlackCAT.
That independence has allowed us to challenge powerful corporations for two decades.
In 2011 and 2012, we confronted the corporations financing the American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC, which was helping state lawmakers advance Stand Your Ground laws and voter-suppression bills. Coca-Cola left. Kraft left. Walmart left. Dozens of companies followed. ALEC eventually shut down the task force responsible for those bills.
In 2013, our campaign helped move nearly $60 million in institutional investments out of private-prison companies.
We have persuaded advertisers to leave networks that profit from racism. We have challenged Hollywood over the criminalization of Black people on screen. We have pressed technology companies to take responsibility for the racism and disinformation their platforms spread.
Those campaigns taught us something fundamental: accountability begins with evidence. Someone has to find the filings, follow the money, identify the pattern, and put the record before enough people that a company can no longer ignore it.
TheBlackCAT puts that work in public hands.
Why we built it
The first release focuses on one question: How have companies treated Black workers?
It draws from federal discrimination and labor records dating from 2016 forward.
TheBlackCAT does not yet cover corporate political spending, lending discrimination, environmental harms, data-center locations, or the sale of surveillance technology. Those areas are under development.
We would rather give the public one tool it can rely on than five tools it cannot.
Join the movement
Help us strengthen the record
Found an error? Send us the evidence, and we will review it.
Know about a company or public record we should examine? Send that too.
