Project 21 Press Release: Black Activists Criticize Congressional Proposals to Create a Race-Based Hawaiian Government
Without a hearing, the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Natural Resources is expected to vote on the "Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act of 2007" (H.R. 505) on May 2. Members of the black leadership network Project 21 are expressing concern that the legislation directly conflicts with the spirit of ...
Liberals are Doubting Thomas for No Real Reason, by Darryn “Dutch” Martin
Liberals are Doubting Thomas for No Real Reason by Darryn "Dutch" Martin In the eyes of retired Brooklyn Law School professor Henry Mark Holzer, U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas is one of the most brilliant legal minds to ever sit on the federal bench. It's not a ...
Gun Ownership Becoming a Capital Idea, by Deneen Borelli
Gun Ownership Becoming a Capital Idea by Deneen Borelli (bio) For years, Shelly Parker faced intimidation and harassment from the drug dealers and gang-bangers who roamed her neighborhood. Already frustrated because the police never did enough to make her feel truly safe, she was further dismayed by the fact ...
Hold Your Tongue, Unless You’re Criticizing a Conservative
Comments considered to cross the line of good taste recently have led to a surprisingly large number of firings among radio hosts and staff. Most notable was Don Imus's April firing from CBS Radio and MSNBC after he called the Rutgers University women's basketball team "nappy-headed hos." The outrage from ...
Why Father’s Day Saddens Me, by Darryn “Dutch” Martin
Why Father's Day Saddens Me by Darryn "Dutch" Martin (bio) As the product of a single-parent home, I always have mixed feelings when Father's Day rolls around. What could I understand about the importance of fathers when my own formative years were shaped by the absence of one? Much has ...
Project 21 Press Release: Black Activists Laud Supreme Court’s Ban on Partial Birth Abortion
Today's U.S. Supreme Court ruling upholding a legislative ban on the practice of partial birth abortion is being hailed by members of the black leadership network Project 21 as a victory for the safety and welfare of the unborn as well as a reminder of the importance of having strict ...
Project 21 Press Release: Black Conservatives: Duke Rape Case Shows Importance of “Innocent Until Proven Guilty”
Today's announcement that dubious sexual assault charges filed against the three current and former Duke students were dropped has members of the Project 21 black leadership network sharply criticizing those who used the year-long investigation to create racial animosity for personal or political gain. "It's absurd that a year of ...
Project 21 Press Release: Black Conservatives Speak Out on Don Imus Controversy, Criticism
Don Imus has been suspended by CBS Radio and MSNBC for two weeks in the wake of comments made on his April 4, 2007 syndicated radio show. On that show, Imus called members of the Rutgers University women's basketball team "rough girls" and "nappy-headed hos." Others in the studio with ...
A Rational Response to an Irrational Act, by B.B. Robinson, Ph.D.
A Rational Response to an Irrational Act by B.B. Robinson, Ph.D. (bio) Recent events put Don Imus' neck on the chopping block for broadcasting a statement - which you already know and which I will not repeat here - about members of the Rutgers University women's basketball team. Imus willingly ...
Chavez Commemoration Craves Consensus it Lacks, by Joe Hicks
Chavez Commemoration Craves Consensus it Lacks by Joe Hicks This past March marked the 80th anniversary of the birth of the late farm labor organizer Cesar Chavez, and some members of Congress are pushing legislation that may someday lead to national monuments, historical designations and maybe even a holiday honoring ...
Black Liberals Need To Stop The Double Standard, by Akindele Akinyemi
Black Liberals Need To Stop The Double Standard by Akindele Akinyemi (bio) Radio host Don Imus's reputation and career quickly went downhill. Imus recently made the bad decision to describe the Rutgers University women's basketball team as "rough girls" with "tattoos," adding, "That's some nappy-headed hos there." Imus's executive producer ...
Subprime Mortgages: A Case of Back to the Future, by B.B. Robinson, Ph.D.
Subprime Mortgages: A Case of Back to the Future by B.B. Robinson, Ph.D. (bio) Are you living "the American Dream"? More importantly, are you able to pay for it? According to Census Bureau figures, almost 70 percent of American households owned their own homes in late 2005. Almost half ...
Cesar Chavez Did Little to Stop His Union’s Violence, Charges Civil Rights Activist at Congressional Hearing on Honoring Chavez
Joe R. Hicks, a Project 21 member who marched arm-in-arm with Jesse Jackson at Cesar Chavez's funeral in 1993, will testify before Congress March 29 in opposition to spending public funds honoring the late United Farm Workers union organizer. Hicks was asked to testify about Chavez as part of congressional ...
House Action on Iraq Supports ‘Disgrace and Defeat’, Black Leader Says
Project 21’s Kevin Martin is speaking out in support of President George W. Bush's decision to veto the controversial emergency supplemental spending bill for troops in Iraq and Afghanistan that was approved by the House today by a thin 218-212 margin. This bill links aid to our military forces serving ...
Might “Strengthening Black Families Month” Be Better Than Celebrating Black History? by La Shawn Barber
It's Black History Month again. Time to break out the tributes to Martin Luther King, go downtown to listen to bad poetry and look at bad art about the struggles of black folk, belt out a chorus of "We Shall Overcome" and sit through endless "celebrations" and TV shows about ...
Project 21 Press Release: Black Activists React to Senator Joe Biden’s Comments About Senator Barack Obama
In calling Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) a "storybook" candidate based on his view that Biden is "articulate, bright and clean," Senator Joe Biden (D-DE) has angered members of the black leadership network Project 21, who say Biden's remarks are elitist, condescending and insensitive. "Joe Biden's comments are completely unacceptable and ...
Have Blacks Advanced in the 21st Century? by B.B. Robinson, Ph.D.
Six years ago, I made a public plea for our community to achieve a set of goals that would move us further up the path toward full integration into American society. I said at that time - and I still consider it to be true - that if full integration ...
Why the “N” Word Grows in Popularity, by Jeffrey Hicks
The "n-word" is perhaps the most emotionally-loaded term in the English language. Throughout its history, the n-word's usage was primarily meant to dehumanize, debase and dishonor African-Americans. In the "good old days," the word was used by bigots with either contempt or patronization. Its underlying meaning, however, was always the ...
Oprah Shouldn’t Give Up on Our Kids, by Deneen Borelli
After visiting our nation's failing urban public schools, Oprah Winfrey felt frustrated. In an interview with Newsweek magazine, she said: "I became so frustrated with visiting inner-city schools in the U.S. The sense that you need to learn just isn't there. In America if you ask the kids what they ...
Project 21 Press Release: Black Activist Takes Issue with School Choice Opposition
Senator Edward Kennedy's (D-MA) opposition to a proposed revision of the federal "No Child Left Behind" educational policy to allow school choice is evidence of an elitist attitude and a willingness to put the desires of the teachers' unions over the needs of students according to a fellow with the ...
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