Ben Carson’s Welfare Reform Defended: “Separate the Needy from the Greedy”
Promoting a better deal for those receiving government assistance, Project 21 Co-Chairman Horace Cooper showed support for Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson’s proposal for welfare reform in an interview with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. As part of the Trump Administration’s comprehensive efforts to reform the American welfare system, Secretary ...
Embracing America’s Promise is the Key to Escaping Mental Prison
It didn’t take much for hip hop star Kanye West to get the political left up in arms. Celebrities simply aren’t supposed to praise conservative politicians or the ideas they espouse. Especially if that celebrity is black. It’s even more maddening when that celebrity is the zeitgeist and cannot be ...
A Better Deal for Black Employment Demanded by Black Leaders
Project 21 Calls for Repeal of Discriminatory Laws Hindering Black Economic Prosperity Washington, D.C. – Jim Crow-era regulations created for the express purpose of denying blacks economic opportunity are still on the books and must be repealed to promote black prosperity, according to the Project 21 black leadership network in ...
Hip Hop Abandons Trump When He Can Do the Most for Black America
There’s a radio station in Detroit that now refuses to play music by Kanye West. A DJ at another station recently announced “[t]he Kanye boycott has begun.” It’s not because of the quality of West’s music. It’s due to the statements he’s made in his support of President Donald Trump ...
Kanye Isn’t The Only Black Supporting Trump: Here’s Why, by Derrick Hollie
Kanye West surprised the American music scene last Friday by dropping a single “Ye vs. The People,” in which he and fellow rapper T.I. go back and forth about their political views. Some are calling his vocal support of President Trump nothing more than a publicity stunt, but even if ...
Black Leaders Ask White House and Congressional Leadership for a “Better Deal” for Black Americans
Project 21 Proposes Bold, Innovative Reforms to Promote Black Opportunity and Prosperity Washington, D.C. – Project 21, the black leadership network, has asked the White House and Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s office for a “better deal” for African-Americans, urging both to support its new 57-point plan for promoting black opportunity ...
Project 21’s Washington on CNN: Put Aside Trump Hatred, Kanye Controversy to Promote Progress
Generations-long war may be over on the Korean Peninsula, Tom Brokaw is facing #metoo allegations and ABBA reunited – but CNN is still focused on all things potentially scandalous involving President Donald Trump. On the April 26 edition of “CNN Tonight with Don Lemon,” Project 21 Co-Chairman Stacy Washington was ...
Black Activists Want Government to Investigate Employer-Mandated “Implicit Bias” Workshops
Starbucks Shutdown Prompts Concern That “Racial Bias Training” Programs Actually Violate Civil Rights Non-Minority and Male Employees Could Be Disadvantaged Washington, DC – With the Starbucks chain of coffeehouses planning to shutter over 8,000 locations on May 29 to train approximately 175,000 members of its workforce on issues of alleged ...
Black Conservatives Address Starbucks Controversy
Starbucks, one of the most high-profile liberal corporations in the world, is being called racist after two black men were arrested in one of the company’s Philadelphia shops. According to news reports, the two men were denied access to the bathroom because they had not made a purchase. There to ...
Project 21 Co-Chairman Brings Her Daily Talk Radio Show to More Stations in Southeast
St. Louis, MO/Washington, D.C. - "Stacy On The Right," the daily talk radio program hosted by Project 21 Co-Chairman Stacy Washington, has expanded its reach with the pickup of three new terrestrial radio stations in Georgia and Florida. "It's exciting to see more program directors add us to their lineups," ...
Black Activists Praise Trump Welfare Reform Plans
Ambitious Executive Order on "Economic Mobility" Called a "Welcome Development" Project 21 to Issue "Blueprint for a Better Deal for Black America" Aligning with Aspects of Trump Reform Agenda Washington, D.C. - Calling it a "welcome development that will lead to greater economic prosperity," black conservatives from the Project 21 ...
Carson Criticized for Attempting to Drain HUD’s Swamp
“Swamp creatures are terrified of what Ben Carson is doing to clean up HUD. Let’s all hope he keeps at it.” In a new Daily Caller commentary, Project 21 Co-Chairman Horace Cooper describes the new mindset that Dr. Ben Carson is bringing to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban ...
Actress Milano No Smart Cookie on Second Amendment
It’s not uncommon for members of the Hollywood elite to demonize the National Rifle Association, but former child star Alyssa Milano took it a step further by injecting race into the conversation. Members of the National Center’s Project 21 black leadership network are responding to the smear. In a tweet ...
National Guard at Border “Works for the President”
With an increase in illegal southern border crossings, National Center Senior Fellow Horace Cooper commended President Donald Trump on his “investment” of thousands of National Guard troops to help with federal law enforcement efforts there. During an interview with Stuart Varney on the “Varney and Co.” program on the Fox ...
King’s Dream Denied by Left
Despite their deification of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the political left in America today acts in ways quite estranged from his teachings. Project 21 member Jerome Danner suggests remedying this through a reintroduction to Dr. King’s specific goal of a colorblind society through a generous repetition of the famous ...
Americans Need to Hear Martin Luther King, Jr.’s ‘I Have a Dream’ Speech Again and Again, by Jerome Danner
In life, there are times when a lesson must be repeated for understanding, growth and, ultimately, for application. The repetition could be due to an individual’s seemingly resistant nature to hearing it — and their acceptance it upon hearing it. Or the repetition of the lesson may be needed due ...
Swamp Creatures are Terrified of What Ben Carson is Doing to Clean Up HUD
It’s been a year since Dr. Ben Carson was confirmed as Secretary for Housing and Urban Development. For most of its existence HUD is the cabinet-level agency probably best known for management challenges and the occasional corruption scandal involving local government officials abusing funds. Liberals love HUD, because it hands ...
Cooper Debates Federal Diversity
When all else fails, play the race card. CNN recently ran a report that cited three anonymous sources (naturally) who claimed Trump Administration Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke downplayed the importance of diversity in federal staffing. As the nation just humbly observed the 50th anniversary of the death of ...
Fox Host Threatens to Make National Center’s Cooper a Regular Guest
“Horace, you make a lot of sense!” That was the wise judgement of Fox Business Network host Stuart Varney about National Center Senior Fellow Horace Cooper. He recently appeared on that channel to discuss the liberal political strategy of going after President Donald Trump’s character instead of his policies. Horace ...
Calling Out Gun Sale Age Discrimination
As Project 21 Co-Chairman Stacy Washington sees it, “[p]olitically correct retailers are traveling down a road of discrimination by setting their own arbitrary age limits for purchasing guns.” In the wake of the Parkland school shooting, some chain stores that sell guns decided to arbitrarily raise the age limit for ...
