Project 21’s Gardner Warned of Miss America’s Troubles Before Recent Scandal
The Miss America Organization is imploding, but Project 21 member Day Gardner already warned us months ago about why it’s happening. Day is a pioneer in integrating Miss America. At the 1977 pageant, she advanced to the semifinals as Miss Delaware – becoming the first black contestant to compete throughout the entire televised ...
Second Amendment Applies to Churches, Says Project 21’s Nedd
In the wake of the shooting at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland, Texas, many church officials – including Project 21 Co-Chairman Council Nedd II – began to rethink the notion of carrying firearms in places of worship. In Texas, Attorney General Ken Paxton has now definitively ruled the practice ...
Inaugural Protestors’ Rights Trump President Supporters’ Rights
Six people who were among over 200 arrested on January 20 for their involvement in inauguration protesting that included violence and vandalism were found not guilty after an almost month-long trial. While those who were acquitted and their attorneys consider the verdicts a victory for the First Amendment, Project 21 ...
Harrisburg Gunman Targeting Police May Be a Peek at the Future
A gunman who was undoubtedly targeting police officers was shot and killed in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania on Friday afternoon. But Ahmed Aminamin El-Mofty was dispatched by a Pennsylvania State Police trooper during his second attempted assault. None of the officers involved were hurt. Neither were any bystanders. El-Mofty’s Arab ethnicity and ...
Project 21 Co-Chairman Targeted by Left for Protecting FCC Chairman
No good deed goes unpunished. The Facebook page of Project 21 Co-Chairman Stacy Washington is under siege after she called attention to plans by left-wing activists to descend on the home of Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai on New Year’s Eve. In retaliation for the FCC’s vote to reduce ...
With a Successful 2017 in the Books, National Center Sets Sights on 2018
What does it say that liberal Apple asked for OUR advice on dealing with shareholder proposals? What does it suggest when newspapers such as the Washington Post publish “fake news” about us? What does it mean that Al Gore’s office responded to our criticism with ad hominem attacks? And what ...
Black “Leaders” Squander Opportunity for Truce with Trump at Mississippi Civil Rights Event
As Project 21 member Jerome Danner sees it, those who claim to lead the black community failed to be leaders when they shunned President Donald Trump last weekend during the opening of the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum. For example, U.S. Representatives John Lewis (D-GA) and Bennie Thompson (D-MS) pulled out ...
Project 21’s Cooper Likens Race-Obsessed Royal Wedding Hysteria to Segregation Era
On the Fox News Channel program “The Ingraham Angle,” Project 21 Co-Chairman Horace Cooper criticized the “weird fixation” liebrals have with the biracial ethnicity of actress Meghan Markle – the American actress engaged to be married to Britain’s Price Harry. “I can’t understand a racial fixation,” Horace noted about mostly ...
Gray Lady Apologizes for Neo-Nazi Profile, But Not Hateful Commentary Criticized by Project 21
In a recent Daily Caller commentary, Project 21 member Ted Hayes called out the New York Times and Cardozo Law Professor Ekow N. Yankah for a hateful piece in the Times in which the professor explained why he tells his black children they cannot be real friends with white people ...
President of 107th-Ranked Black College Criticizes Project 21 for Putting National Anthem in Context… Literally
Taking issue with a recent press release from Project 21 and a larger historical debate, Simmons College of Kentucky President Rev. Dr. Kevin W. Cosby insisted that the “Star-Spangled Banner” lyrics should apparently be defined literally and by modern standards. Are you sure you want to be so literal, President ...
An Anglican Bishop Explains Why He May Soon Be Packing Heat at His Pennsylvania Pulpit, by Council Nedd II
As a law enforcement officer, I carry a gun almost anywhere. But I never take it to my other workplace — a church. Besides being a state constable, I’m also a church rector and an Anglican bishop. I am, however, thinking of changing that personal gun ban for the greater ...
Project 21 Co-Chair’s Comments on Guns in Church to Protect Parishioners in Daily Caller, Wall Street Journal and OC Register
Project 21 Co-Chairman Council Nedd II, also an Anglican bishop and Pennsylvania state constable, is reconsidering his personal decision not to carry his gun during Sunday services. As a constable, Council has provided protection to other religious institutions. He never felt the need to be armed in his own sacred ...
NAACP Protest of “Star-Spangled Banner” Rebuked by Black Conservatives
"Cynical" Attack on National Anthem Divides Nation NAACP Chapter's Demand Contradicts Earlier Claims That Protests Are Not About Flag Washington, D.C. - As the NAACP's California chapter argues that the "Star-Spangled Banner" should be dropped as America's national song because it is "racist" and "anti-black," members of the Project 21 ...
After Sutherland Springs Church Massacre, Anglican Bishop Considers Arming Himself at the Altar
Washington, D.C. / Pine Grove Mills, PA - A man of the cloth in Pennsylvania who also wears a badge is now contemplating packing a pistol in the pulpit to protect his parish. Bishop Council Nedd II, rector of St. Alban's Anglican Church in Pine Grove Mills, Pennsylvania and co-chairman ...
Packing at the Pulpit: This Man of God May Arm Himself to Protect His Flock, by Bishop Council Nedd II
As a law enforcement officer, I can and do carry a gun almost anywhere. But I never take it to my other workplace – a church. Besides being a state constable, I’m also a church rector and an Anglican bishop. I am, however, rethinking that personal gun ban for the ...
Crusade Against Cross Honoring Vets Could Go to Supreme Court
An appeals court ruling against a war memorial cross could lead to the next big religious liberties case before the U.S. Supreme Court. Bishop Council Nedd II, a co-chairman of the National Center’s Project 21 black leadership network says: The Bladensburg Peace Cross should be allowed to stand where it ...
NFL Kneeling: Project 21’s Horace Cooper 2, Leo Terrell 0
@horacecooper ~ Horace Cooper is one of the most sensible, logical men I've ever heard speak! The black community needs to hear his message! — Infinity (@infinityzzzzz) October 11, 2017 As this tumultuous NFL season heads into its seventh week, its fans – or ex-fans, as the case may be ...
Black Activists Credit Trump Policies for Helping Create 17-Year Low in Black Unemployment
Washington, D.C. - Recently released unemployment statistics showing black unemployment at a 17-year low are being applauded by members of the Project 21 black leadership network as a triumph of the "commonsense" policies and economic confidence brought about by the Trump Administration. "Commonsense measures to reduce regulation are a major ...
Black Activists at Cornell Want Fewer Africans on Campus
Black students at Cornell University are complaining that they are at a disadvantage because there are too many black students. It’s not exactly that there are too many black students. Cornell apparently doesn’t have enough of the right black students. And the black student group there is demanding the Ivy ...
Black Conservatives Say Players Kneel and Protest at Their Peril
NFL's Indulgence of Radical Politics Sends Divisive Message, Drives Away Fans Washington, D.C. - With the high likelihood of continued instances of professional football players "taking a knee" while the National Anthem is played during this week's NFL games, members of the Project 21 black leadership network are warning that ...
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