Starbucks Board of Directors Opposes Viewpoint Diversity
Far-Left Coffee Giant Votes to Remain Liberal Enclave Seattle, WA/Washington, D.C. – Starbucks shareholders followed the board’s advice and yesterday rejected a shareholder proposal seeking inclusion of conservatives within the coffee giant’s board of directors. The vote occurred at the annual meeting of Starbucks investors, held at the WaMu Theater in ...
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Illegal Immigration’s Burden on Opportunity, Welfare and Black America
The flow of illegal immigrants into the United States led President Donald Trump to declare a national emergency to try to enhance border security. While the President focused on crime as a key reason for his declaration, Project 21 member Jerome Danner – in keeping with the case made in ...
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Trump Education Reforms Applauded by Black Activists
White House Higher Ed Proposals Align With Project 21’s “Blueprint for a Better Deal for Black America” Recommendations Washington, D.C. - Black activists with the Project 21 black leadership network are applauding the Trump Administration’s newly announced reforms for American colleges and universities. Many of the policies announced by the ...
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New Calls for NAACP to Stop Smollett Nomination for an Image Award
Project 21 members are calling on the NAACP to rescind actor Jussie Smollett’s nomination for an Image Award. The nomination was made after Smollett claimed to be the victim of a hate crime. Since then, Smollett has been indicted on 16 counts of felonious disorderly conduct related to the attack allegedly ...
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Troubling Tropes of Anti-Trump Tirades
One of the more ludicrous ways critics accuse President Donald Trump of racism is by saying that his silence about an incident betrays his support for white nationalism. That’s what Michael Steele, the former Maryland lieutenant governor, suggested on MSNBC. He said President Trump was “probably not happy” about the arrest of ...
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Black Activists Ask NAACP to Drop Jussie Smollett Nomination from Image Awards
Actor Does Not Deserve Honor After Arrest for Hate Crimes Hoax Washington, D.C. - After Jussie Smollett's indictment on felony charges for lying to law enforcement about an alleged hate crime, members of the Project 21 black leadership network are asking the NAACP to rescind Smollett's nomination for an upcoming ...
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Good Health Without Vaccinations a Long Shot
Until recently, the reason people were unvaccinated was largely due to a lack of money to pay for shots. Nowadays, there’s a growing “anti-vax” movement blaming preventative medicine for conditions like autism and diabetes. Anti-vax advocates are sticking to their notions even though, as Project 21 member (and new father) Jerome Danner points ...
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NAACP Image Awards Controversy Redux
When the NAACP holds its 50th annual Image Awards in two weeks, one of the past moments the group will NOT be highlighting is its nomination of R. Kelly for an award 15 years ago. Project 21 called them out on it then, and the group’s leadership pledged to tighten the criteria ...
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Conservatives Ask Attorney General to Investigate Big Tech Bias
“Never in human history have companies been this large and influential.” That’s the warning that 32 conservative leaders – including Justin Danhof, Esq., the National Center’s general counsel and Free Enterprise Project director – have delivered to Attorney General William Barr about the threat social media giants now pose to free ...
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Big Tech Becoming Big Brother
There is a looming, existential threat to American conservatives and others who anger the establishment. Censorship is certainly affecting our freedom of speech right now, but it is also increasingly affecting the ability for some people to make and spend money. In a commentary published by Epoch Times, Project 21 member Adrian ...
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‘White Nationalism’ is the Left’s Latest Trope Against Trump, by Dr. Carol M. Swain
President Trump is frequently under attack from leftist Democrats and left-leaning Republicans who offer comfort to the President’s enemies by helping advance a false narrative about the President’s position on nationalism. A few weeks ago, Michael Steele, the former Republican National Committee chairman, shocked a number of Americans, including myself, ...
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Don’t Believe the Socialist Hype
Recent polling shows millennials are falling for the hype when it comes to socialism. AOC and her Democrat Socialist agenda have enthralled her congressional colleagues, followers and the mainstream media. But during his State of the Union address, President Donald Trump proclaimed he’d hold the line against socialism. He received rousing applause from his ...
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Biracial Child Causes Confusion for Cindy McCain
It can be quite embarrassing for an older parent to be mistaken for their child’s grandparent. In the case of Project 21 member Marie Fischer, that misperception also came with a tinge of suspicion that she might not be related to her at all – and that she might have meant ...
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2019 Is the New 1984, by Adrian Norman
Within just a few short years, we might be saying, “Welcome to a Brave New America—a dystopian freak show of a world, where the capricious whims of a few control the lives of the many.” Picture it as a dark existence where faceless, nameless authoritarians are free to make decisions ...
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Case Of Unvaccinated Boy Gives Good Reason To Get Immunizations, by Jerome Danner
Although vaccinations are (and have been) commonplace in society for decades now, there is still a healthy debate over their necessity or if they are detrimental to children. The arguments typically come from those persons in the anti-vaccine movement regardless that research has shown vaccinations have overwhelmingly been a benefit ...
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Disney CEO Bob Iger Confronted over ABC Stars’ Blackface Incidents
Free Enterprise Project Suggests Disney’s Handling of Blackface “Privately” is Hypocritical Since the Company Publicly Rebuked Others St. Louis, MO/Washington, D.C. – Disney CEO Bob Iger refused to address the use of blackface by two of ABC’s most prominent personalities when he was questioned about those instances at today’s annual ...
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Socialist Sentiment Compared to Cult Conversion
In a recent and very troubling poll, Americans were split – dead even – on the question of whether or not the United States was the source of all the world’s problems. An early February poll conducted by McLaughlin and Associates asked, “Do you agree or disagree that America is the ...
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FEP Proposal Dominates Apple Meeting, Press Coverage
While the Free Enterprise Project’s proposal for ideological diversity that was presented at last week’s Apple shareholder meeting may not have passed, it did generate a significant amount of attention from both investors and the media. In a report by the Fox Business Network, correspondent Susan Li noted that FEP’s proposal dominated ...
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Anti-Cop Attitude Fuels Anti-Gun School Policy
Police at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design wear Kevlar vests to protect themselves from gunfire, but the school’s trustees recently reaffirmed a policy that keeps the campus cops unable to return fire. In a 8-2 vote, the trustees chose to continue a gun-free campus policy. David Nelson, the ...
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Ideological Diversity Resolution Takes Over Apple’s Annual Investor Meeting
Free Enterprise Project Proposal Sparks Vigorous Debate Among Investors of the Left-Leaning Tech Giant Cupertino, CA/Washington, D.C. – A shareholder resolution calling on Apple to increase the ideological diversity of its liberal-leaning board of directors sparked serious debate among investors, taking up nearly the entire business portion of today’s annual ...
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