Smooth Sailing Predicted for Kavanaugh High Court Nomination
Despite the divisive words and challenges uttered in the wake of Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court, Project 21 Co-Chairman Horace Cooper thinks that both the political and economic climate indicate a positive outcome for the Trump Administration. While the process may roil the Senate, all signs appear ...
Black Leaders Applaud Brett Kavanaugh’s Nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court
Washington, D.C. – Applauding President Donald Trump’s nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, members of the Project 21 black leadership network praise Judge Kavanaugh’s dedication to the Constitution and his impressive record of accomplishment. “This is a judicial grand slam! As someone familiar with Judge ...
Trump’s Fuel-Efficiency Reality Check Revs Up the American Economy, by Derrick Hollie
Despite rampant speculation that President Donald Trump’s trade policy might increase some car prices, how his regulatory relief agenda may lower sticker prices and increase safety goes largely ignored. How did this happen? The Trump administration is revising the Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards imposed on automakers during the Obama ...
Bitterness, Debt and Failure Among Good Black Students: Blame Preference Policies
To foster race-neutral admissions processes at American colleges and universities, the Trump Administration rescinded “unnecessary, outdated, inconsistent with existing law or otherwise improper” guidance issued during the Obama era. Among discarded guidance is the approval of race-explicit selection criteria – including the suggestion there is a “compelling interest” that “[i]n some ...
Race-Neutral College Admissions Action Applauded by Black Activists
Project 21 Offers Recommendations Complementary to Trump Administration Move to Help Black Students Succeed Washington, D.C. – Black students will be more likely to succeed in higher education thanks to new action by the Trump Administration against race preferences in school admissions, say members of the Project 21 black leadership ...
Don’t Support Trump View on School Admissions? Maybe You’re the Racist!
Legal guidance from the federal government favoring race preferences in college and university admissions was wiped away by the Trump Administration. Project 21 Co-Chairman Horace Cooper says that’s a good thing, and he questioned those who insist affirmative action policies are absolutely necessary for black students to succeed. In a blow ...
Give Blacks Equal Voting Rights: Put an End to Schemes That Dilute the Black Vote, Black Leaders Say
Washington, DC - Although poll taxes and literacy tests have been illegal for many decades, blacks are still being denied their rights to fully participate in elections today, according to the black leadership network Project 21. While the techniques used now to restrict the black vote are more subtle and sophisticated, Project ...
Left’s Harassment Tactics Betray Civil Rights Legacy
When Representative Maxine Waters spoke in favor of “absolutely harass[ing]” members of the Trump Administration as a protest of their policies – real or perceived – Project 21 member Derrick Hollie asked “[w]here does this sort of rhetoric lead?” In a commentary published by the Daily Signal, Derrick – who ...
Liberal Justices’ Different Standard for Judging Trump, Obama Statements
National Center Senior Fellow Horace Cooper says the Constitution won out over emotionalism when the U.S. Supreme Court voted to keep President Donald Trump’s travel security orders in place. In an interview published by Newsweek, Horace also noted that the Supreme Court justices who incorporated the President’s “out of court” statements ...
Institutions of Faith are Critically Important to Black Progress, Black Leaders Say
Project 21 Releases Plan to Reinvigorate Black Churches, Including Tax Incentives for Supporting Church Day Care and Schools, Bans of Race-Based Abortions and Ending Federal Restrictions on Church Speech Washington, D.C. – Black churches have long been the most important institutions in the black community and reinvigorating them is critically ...
Rep. Waters, You Are Sullying Martin Luther King’s Legacy, by Derrick Hollie
Every January, our nation celebrates Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and every February, during Black History Month, we contemplate his words of nonviolent resistance and how the practice of that philosophy brought about the civil rights movement. Leaders, both black and white, rightly venerate him, but somewhere along the way, ...
Better Black Deal on Immigration Explained on Fox Business
Recommendations in Project 21’s “Blueprint for a Better Deal for Black America” for stopping wealth transfer from black citizens to illegal aliens were explained by Co-Chairman Horace Cooper during a recent interview on the Fox Business Network. In all, there are $113 billion in benefits bestowed on illegal immigrants living ...
Black Leaders Praise Trump Administration for Helping Make New Vehicles Safer, Cheaper
Rollback of CAFE Mandate Is Compliant with Project 21’s “Blueprint for a Better Deal for Black America” Washington, D.C. - The Project 21 black leadership network is thanking two members of President Trump’s cabinet for easing regulations that disproportionately hurt black Americans and jeopardized driver safety. Noting that excessive regulatory ...
Empower Black Americans Long After Juneteenth is Over
"Blueprint for a Better Deal for Black America" Could Improve Lives of Millions Washington, DC - Celebrating "Juneteenth," the oldest and most popular commemoration of the end of slavery in the United States, leaders of the Project 21 black activist organization urge black Americans seeking more opportunity and prosperity to question ...
Stop Forcing Black Citizens to Subsidize Non-Citizens
Prohibit Illegal Immigrants from Accessing Public Services Washington, DC - Illegal immigrants should be prohibited from accessing all but emergency public services because the cost of these services unfairly and disproportionately falls on black families, according to the black leadership network Project 21 in its "Blueprint for a Better Deal for ...
Kathy Griffin’s Comedy Lacks Hart
A white woman implying that a black man is being a traitor to his race doesn’t make for good optics as that woman tries to reboot her career in entertainment. But we’re talking about Kathy Griffin. Members of the National Center’s Project 21 black leadership network are lauding the target ...
Trump-Kim Meeting a “Teensy Little Bite” – Temper the Speculation
It’s too early to assign too much to the initial meeting between President Donald Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un. Appearing on the Fox Business Network’s “Cavuto Coast-to-Coast,” Project 21 Co-Chairman Stacy Washington compared it to a first date. She suggested a lot of people are reading too much ...
Make Schools Serving Black Students Better Through Competition
... Make Them Safer By Arming Personnel, Black Leaders Say Washington, D.C. – Students trapped in failing schools can be freed by encouraging competition among public schools through the provision of vouchers and “Tax Credit Scholarships,” according to the black leadership network Project 21 in the latest installment of its ...
Pardon Me, Mr. President! by Emery McClendon
We often say “pardon me” after accidentally inconveniencing or offending someone. It’s also a polite expression to ask for someone to repeat something. But we now seem more accustomed to using the term pardon in the context of the power used by American presidents to grant clemency to those convicted ...
Redemption: It’s Time for Trump to Pardon Model Prisoners Serving Time for Low-Level Crimes, by Council Nedd II
Last December, President Donald Trump first exercised his power to pardon by commuting the sentence of Sholom Rubashkin. The kosher meatpacking executive received 27 years in prison for money laundering. Rubashkin’s pardon was championed by members of Congress, former attorneys general and law enforcement officials who said the penalty was too ...
