Project 21 Co-Chairman Horace Cooper Calls Out Washington Post Columnist for Attacks on St. Louis County Grand Jury
Cooper Says the Grand Jury Process Plays a Critical Role in the American Legal System Washington, D.C. - In Friday's Washington Post, columnist Dana Milbank claimed the St. Louis grand jury reviewing evidence in the Michael Brown shooting is perpetuating a "farce." "This yet again demonstrates just how far away ...
Project 21’s Kevin Martin: “The Strategy Laid Out by the President is Nothing New”
Project 21's Kevin Martin has some strong thoughts about President Obama's ISIS speech tonight: The strategy laid out by the President is nothing new outside the application of United States air power. President Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Senators McCain and Graham were advocates of arming so-called ...
Possible Obama Scheme to Designate Huge Numbers of Latin American Illegal Immigrants as “Refugees” Would Violate Limits on Refugees Set by Obama Himself
Such a Strategy to Circumvent Congress Would Violate Refugee Procedures Set by U.S. Law and Harm Immigration Chances of Desperate Refugee Applicants from Other Continents Washington, D.C. - President Obama reportedly is considering designating Latin American illegal aliens as "refugees" from gangs and drug lords to justify an executive action ...
“American People Expect” Obama to Work with Congress on Illegal Immigration
Project 21 co-chairman Horace Cooper says the only way to defuse the current immigration crisis is for the “White House and Congress to come together” and “work collaboratively” to achieve a solution. This is opposed to President Obama’s threat to use his executive power to unilaterally declare amnesty or something ...
Obama Employment Numbers Lackluster, Underperforming
Vacation is over — it’s time for the President to get back to work. And it’s all uphill for President Obama. Abroad, he openly revealed he has no strategy on dealing with the growing problem of ISIS (but didn’t he announce the terrorists were on their heels back in 2012?) ...
Obama Administration Probe of Ferguson Police Called “Well Past a Rush to Judgment”
DOJ May Be Signaling It Does Not Expect an Indictment in Michael Brown Shooting Death Washington, D.C. - Activists with the Project 21 black leadership network are questioning Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to mount a federal investigation of the Ferguson, Missouri Police Department and other law enforcement in the ...
Public Schools Face Health Threat from Illegal Aliens
Washington, D.C. - An unabated influx of illegal aliens along the southern border of the United States is causing a health crisis in the border region. Actions by the Obama Administration to disperse illegals across America while providing an incentive for more illegals to come could lead to a nationwide ...
Remove the Stigma of Bad Black Behavior that Hurts our Race, by Derryck Green
Rather than waiting until specifics about the Michael Brown case are known — such as autopsy results, detailed officer reports, toxicology or other details regarding his death — some Ferguson residents, Brown supporters and various hangers-on decided to act. Learning nothing from the Trayvon Martin case, people took to the ...
It’s Time to Mend the Ties Between Police and the Black Community, by Lawrence Bill Jones III
Ask young boys what they want to be when they grow up, and the answer might be "police officer." It's common to want to protect the innocent, have authority and be the hero. For me, it wasn't any different. I wanted to put on a uniform and badge so I could ...
Why Does the NAACP Fight for Race- and Sex-Based Baby-Killing in Arizona? by Derryck Green
It's as if the NAACP hasn't done enough to dishonor its legacy and completely ruin its reputation as a civil rights organization. Grasping for political relevancy, the so-called civil rights group's Arizona chapter, with the help of the ACLU, is suing the state of Arizona for what can only be ...
The Immigration Problem: What Are The Health Risks? by Elaina F. George, MD
Troubling facts concerning health risks related to the wave of illegal immigrants who are crossing our southern border are coming to light despite efforts by the government to keep Americans in the dark. The usual tactics of crying racism and implying those wanting answers are selfish and lack compassion have ...
Why the Rush to Judgment in Ferguson? by Joe R. Hicks
Eighteen year-old Michael Brown was finally laid to rest, but issues surrounding this tragic killing have not been. The facts surrounding the police shooting of the teenager remain largely unknown, with a grand jury hearing testimony and at least three other investigations underway. This lack of facts, however, did not ...
Let’s Unite and Put ISIS to Flight, by Archbishop Council Nedd II
Having studied and taught history, I tend to look at things with a slightly longer view and in a broader context than most people. Most people tend to view the political world map as always having looked the way it does, but that clearly is not the case. The fact ...
Border-Jumpers “Spit in the Face” of Legal Immigrants
Darryn “Dutch” Martin, a member of the National Center’s Project 21 black leadership network, points out how illegal immigration hurts legal immigrants in particular and hurts America as a whole in economic, political and social ways. As a former foreign service officer and the husband of a naturalized American citizen ...
Police-Community Relations Could Be Improved By Community Common Sense
Amidst all the talk about the police needing better community relations, Project 21 co-chairman Horace Cooper suggests agitators and a rush to judgment whip up so many emotions during tense situations — such as the one recently in Ferguson, Missouri — that people sometimes fail to see there are common ...
Black Supporters of the Police in Ferguson? Yes!
Project 21 member Murdock Gibbs has a shout-out to an unlikely and virtually unknown voice in the crowd in Ferguson, Missouri: While still following the Ferguson tragedy, I saw an interview with a protestor who is supporting Officer Darren Wilson, who stands accused of murdering Michael Brown. Yes, he does ...
Project 21’s Martin Worries “Political Message is Bubbling Up” in Ferguson
In a discussion about the latest developments related to the death of Michael Brown and the subsequent civil unrest and political grandstanding in Ferguson, Missouri, Project 21 member Kevin Martin rhetorically asked host Rick Amato: “I thought this was about justice?” “All of a sudden,” Kevin commented, “the political message ...
Obama’s Immigration Policies, if Adopted, Would Prejudice U.S. Immigration Policy Against Immigrants from Africa
Obama's Threatened Executive Actions Would Legalize Millions from Central America and Mexico While His Legislative Agenda Would Cut African Immigration by a Quarter Washington, D.C. - Expected executive action by President Barack Obama to block illegal aliens from deportation would create a de facto preference in immigration law favoring immigrants ...
Three Project 21 Members Talk Ferguson on Three Segments of “Rick Amato Show”
There was somewhat of a takeover of “The Rick Amato Show” on the One America News Network. Not one, not two, but THREE members of the National Center’s Project 21 black leadership network appeared on 8/20/14 edition of the program. Project 21 member Archbishop Council Nedd II spoke about the ...
Project 21’s Hicks Debates Illegal Immigration in Orlando Sentinel
Project 21 member Joe Hicks made a forceful case against possible Obama Administration amnesty for illegal immigrants in a commentary that appeared in 8/22/14 Orlando Sentinel, one of the largest newspapers in the state of Florida. The Sentinel reached out to Project 21, the National Center’s black leadership network, after ...
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