Focus Areas
Through our work, the Color Of Sound is creating meaningful change for communities of color. By addressing critical issues such as racial healing, housing and land access, economic opportunity, and reparative justice, our projects transmute pain into purpose. Learn more about our recent initiatives and discover how you can become a part of our mission.
Racial Healing
We acknowledge and desire to heal racial trauma suffered by people of color in the United States.
We are looking for projects that address the systemic effects of racism on our nation.
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“A key factor in the perpetuation of white-body supremacy is many people’s refusal to experience clean pain around the myth of race. Instead, usually out of fear, they choose the dirty pain of silence and avoidance and, invariably, prolong the pain.”
-Resmaa Menakem
Housing/ Land Access
Given the systemic barriers to housing and land for people of color, we are looking for projects that remove and repair these barriers.
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“Revolution is based on land. Land is the basis of all independence. Land is the basis of freedom, justice, and equality.” -Malcom X
​Reparative Justice
We seek projects that promote reparative justice and reduce the mass incarceration and excessive punishment of people of color.
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We call for access to community, stable housing, medical care, healthy food, stress reduction, and self-care treatment in place of mass incarceration.
Economic Opportunity
Racial disparities across the U.S. economy are a personal tragedy for the millions of individuals who suffer from the emotional, psychological, and social consequences.
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This is the result of generations of systemic oppression primarily carried out by the US government and other powerful institutions.
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We are looking for projects that help to reverse the effects of these long-standing attitudes and policies.