Obama Administration Trademark Attack on Washington Redskins Condemned by Black Leadership Group
Federal Punishment for Not Changing Name Sets "Dangerous Precedent" Government Retribution Against Private Business Should Concern All Americans, Even Those Who Don't Like Redskins Name Washington, D.C. - By cancelling protected trademarks of the Washington Redskins professional football team, members of the Project 21 black leadership network say, the Obama ...
Juneteenth Emancipation Anniversary Doubles as Call for Reform of Big Government Policies Limiting Liberty, Pinching Privacy
Black Activists Suggest People Assess Extent of Their Freedom Washington, D.C. - On "Juneteenth," the oldest and most-recognized observance of the demise of slavery in the United States, members of the Project 21 black leadership network are suggesting that black Americans make a personal assessment of how much freedom they ...
Supreme Court’s Important Unfinished Business
As is the tradition at the U.S. Supreme Court, justices are leaving the release of their decisions on many of the biggest cases of the term until the very end. After today’s three opinions, there are 14 rulings still left to be revealed before the Court’s term ostensibly ends on June ...
A Salute to Those Who Bravely Went Ashore Seven Decades Ago
Much love and respect goes out to those who served 70 years ago yesterday in the invasion of Normandy and the beginning of the liberation of Europe from Michael Dozier, a veteran and member of the National Center’s Project 21 black leadership network: Imagine being on a ship whose walls ...
VA Scandal, Bergdahl Controversy Can’t Hide Poor Obama Economy
It’s more of the same when it comes to jobless numbers. And that’s not good. The federal unemployment rate, which was released today, remained the same at 6.3 percent for the month of May. Fewer jobs, however, were created — 71,000 fewer — than during the previous month. The percentage ...
Majority of Blacks Surveyed Support Voter ID Laws
Civil Rights Scaremongering Against Polling Place Protections Rings Hollow With Many Blacks Black Activists Say Identity Verification Only Way to Preserve Ballot Integrity, Ensure Every Vote Counts St. Louis/Washington, D.C. - A new poll shows that a majority of black Americans support voter ID laws despite a full-court press by ...
More Black Conservatives Speak on VA Scandal
As the scandal over the quality of veterans’ health care provided by the government continues to simmer, more members of the National Center’s Project 21 black leadership network who have served their country are speaking out about the bureaucratic abuses of veteran benefits. An Air Force veteran, Project 21 member ...
Will Obama Call Keontai? Was the Call to Sandra Just a Fluke?
Remember when Henry Louis Gates, the Harvard professor President Obama supported when the professor got in a dispute with Cambridge, Massachusetts police? Remember Sandra Fluke, the law student who championed ObamaCare’s contraceptive mandate, got criticized by conservatives and then was lionized by the left and asked to speak at President ...
Common Core is Killing American Education, by Cherylyn Harley LeBon
Recently, as I waited in line at the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles, my eyes drifted to a sample license plate on the wall that said "Education Begins At Home." It made me think: "Not if they continue with Common Core and these new SAT standards." If they do, public ...
The Obama Administration’s Cynical Chase for the “Subtle” Racist
Ironically, for a presidency allegedly ushering in a post-racial America, the actions of the White House indicate the Obama Administration considers political manipulation of race to be a practice that's too big to fail. During his recent commencement address at the historically-black Morgan State University, Attorney General Eric Holder said ...
Civil Unions: A Redesign of God’s Family Design, by Stacy Swimp
Before same-sex marriage became the chief focus and the courts made it an easy-to-accomplish goal, civil unions were the refuge for legal homosexual partnerships. Civil unions are defined as a civil or registered partnership that is legally recognized by governments as something that is similar to marriage. After the U.S ...
The Secretary of Education Should Put His Money Where His Mouth is on Teacher Tenure Reform, by Hughey Newsome
It's hard to find truer words than those of Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Rolf M. Treu. In his recent ruling that California's teacher tenure laws violate the California state constitution, Judge Treu stated such laws cause "the potential and/or unreasonable exposure of grossly ineffective teachers to all California ...
Black Veteran Speaks Out on VA Scandal
As the scandal at the Department of Veterans Affairs continues to fester, Project 21 member Kevin Martin, a Navy veteran, weighs in on the lack of decisive action on the part of the Obama Administration: There are plenty of veterans such as myself who have seen President Obama’s public reaction ...
Illegal Immigration Influx Takes Advantage of Obama Inaction
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson briefed Congress on May 29 about, among other things, a new wave of foreign children who are now illegally crossing into the United States. Members of the National Center’s Project 21 black leadership network are speaking out about this growing immigration crisis. According ...
Segregation is Gone, but Schools Still Saddled with Special Interest Politics
This coming Saturday, May 17, is the 60th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court handing down its groundbreaking civil rights decision in the case of Brown v. Board of Education. That decision led to the desegregation of America’s government-run schools and provided a jolt of confidence and energy into a ...
60th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education Desegregation Decision Commemorated
Jim Crow Banished, But Failing Public Schools a Crisis for Many Black Youth Vouchers and Other Alternatives to Failing Public Schools Needed for Full Equality of Opportunity Washington, D.C. - On the 60th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education ruling that mandated desegregation in American ...
Project 21’s Martin Says #BringBackOurStrongForeignPolicy
So far, #bringbackourgirls has not secured the release of the hundreds of Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by the Boko Haram terrorist group. No matter who flashes the hashtag – be it First Lady Michelle Obama, British Prime Minister David Cameron or nearly-naked fashion models – these African Islamists seem unwilling to ...
Leftist PC Police Threaten Free Speech
In the space of just a few weeks, the quality of American freedom has been cheapened and its future made uncertain by a renewed assault of left-wing radicals bent on having their own way — and running roughshod over all other opinions in the process. It’s political correctness all over ...
Black Leadership Network Condemns Race-Based Justice in Pennsylvania Bribery Case
Four State Lawmakers Caught in Government Bribery Sting; Accused of Taking Cash to Influence Actions on Government Contracts and Voter ID State's Attorney General Declines to Prosecute, Apparently Because Lawmakers are Black and Liberal "It appears that Attorney General Kane picks and chooses the laws she will defend and the ...
Holder Urged to Act Quickly on House Request for Criminal Contempt Probe in IRS Case
A guest post by Horace Cooper, attorney, legal commentator and Project 21 co-chairman: Today the House of Representatives voted to hold Lois Lerner in contempt of Congress and to formally request that the DOJ begin a criminal probe of her actions. This vote is the culmination of nearly a year ...
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