Black Leaders Need to Root Out Anti-Semitism in Their Ranks
Investigators trying to get to the bottom of the Hanukkah attack in Monsey, New York have discovered evidence of the assailant’s anti-Semitic leanings – adding this to the unfortunate string of hate-fueled attacks on the Jewish community in the New York City area. Federal hate crime charges have been filed against the ...
Fighting Hate by Helping Strangers: A Project 21 Member’s Challenge
In the wake of the attack on a Hassidic Jewish celebration of Hanukkah by a machete-wielding assailant, Project 21 member Marie Fischer is issuing a challenge to help end religious and racial hatred in 2020 by asking people to get out from behind their keyboards, venture outside their comfort zones ...
Project 21 Leader Packing in Pulpit Praises Response in Texas Church Shooting
There were two horrific, violent assaults on people exercising their faith this past weekend. One would likely have been much worse if not for the fast action of armed members of the congregation. Allowing armed security – including citizens packing a pistol – in the pulpit and pews has been ...
Liberal Policies “Not Working” in Crime-Fighting
Baltimore is on track for over 350 homicides committed in the city during 2019. It has already broken a record for per capita murders with 57 per 100,000 residents. To put the severity of the murder problem affecting Charm City, the per capita rate for New York City is below ...
“Amen and Hallelujah” for New White House Anti-Crime Initiative
To help reduce violent urban crime, the U.S. Department of Justice has announced “Operation Relentless Pursuit.” Members of the National Center’s Project 21 black leadership network are applauding this new anti-crime initiative from the Trump Administration. In seven cities – Albuquerque, Baltimore, Cleveland, Detroit, Kansas City (Missouri), Memphis and Milwaukee – ...
No Free Speech Costs Northwestern My Support
No matter how many times they call me or send me letters, there’s no way I am going to give Northwestern University a dime. Besides the fact the school has an endowment of over $11 billion and doesn’t need my money, political correctness infests my alma mater. My standard response ...
Black Activists Rebuke Comparision of Impeachment to Civil Rights Movement
Partisan “Clarification” Called Disrespectful and Hypocritical Washington, D.C. - Pushing back on lawmakers who compare impeachment proceedings to the Civil Rights Movement and the fight against Jim Crow discrimination, members of the Project 21 black leadership network are calling liberals’ rhetorical tactics - particularly ones by U.S. Representative Hakeem Jeffries ...
Welfare Reform Lauded by Project 21 and Congressional Leader
Last month, overall unemployment in America hit a 50-year low. Over the last three years, black unemployment in particular has reached new recorded lows on six occasions. In a Houston Chronicle commentary co-authored with U.S. Representative Mike Conaway – the ranking member of the Agriculture Committee of the U.S. House ...
A Growing Economy Provides Opportunity to Move More Americans off Food Stamps, by K. Michael Conaway and Horace Cooper
The American economy is growing rapidly, unemployment is at historic lows and job opportunities are everywhere. We can all agree it is a terrific time for Americans looking to enter the workforce. But when the Trump administration recently finalized a rule that simply holds states accountable to the bipartisan 1996 ...
Pelosi’s Selective Shaming
Dissing Thomas Jefferson for owning slaves is “the right thing to do.” A statue of George Washington is a “slap in the face” to black Americans and should be torn down because he also owned slaves. Comments such as these represent the sort of fanaticism that President Donald Trump spoke ...
Black America Responds to Improved Economy
A new survey by Emerson Polling reports that 34.5 percent of black voters approve of Donald Trump’s performance as president. Project 21 Co-Chairman Horace Cooper said it is because black America is “interested in opportunity” and that “a real winning agenda… includ[es] jobs.” President Trump has presided over unprecedented job ...
Identity Politics Favors LGBTQ Activism Over Black Progress
On the left, the intersectional pecking order is marginalizing the black community. In a panel discussion on the Fox News Channel program “The Ingraham Angle,” Project 21 Co-Chairman Horace Cooper said the leftist establishment has chosen to embrace the “new idea” of LGBTQ activism over the concerns of black Americans ...
Addressing the Chinese Threat to America
Russia, Russia, Russia! While the media and lawmakers have been spending too much “wasted time” on Russia, Project 21 Co-Chairman Horace Cooper argues that America has paid too little attention to the threat posed by China. On a recent edition of the nationally-syndicated “Armstrong Williams Show,” Horace and the panel ...
L.A. May Destroy Homeless Community Cleaned by Conservatives
Anticipating a move by the city to destroy a recently cleaned-up homeless encampment, Project 21 consultant Ted Hayes says he will resort to civil disobedience to stop Los Angeles authorities from trying to drive the homeless out of the area without a consideration for their safety, well-being and civil rights ...
Black Political Beliefs May Change with Economic Gains
Despite the Left's dire predictions, it turns out that the policies advocated by President Donald Trump are helping black Americans even more than they are helping white Americans. Numbers don't lie, and the latest employment numbers refute the claims that Trump polices are a burden on the economy and especially ...
There’s Light at the End of the Regulatory Tunnel for Traditional Bulbs
When it comes to the bright idea of allowing people to continue to buy the affordable incandescent light bulbs they want and sometimes need, the National Center and its Project 21 black leadership network were glad to sign onto a public comment submitted to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) ...
Friday Night Lights, Not Fights, by Martin D. Baker
Having played high school football, I know trash-talking is all part of the game. Getting into the opponent’s head can give a team an advantage. Fans do their part with chants. But everything should be civil and not taken beyond the confines of the stadium. But recent events have turned ...
Calling Foul on Unsportsmanlike Behavior
In high school football, there is not a problem of players kneeling during the national anthem. Unlike the NFL, it would appear the challenge involving student athletes is far more grave. Under the Friday night lights, there could be a powder keg of racial tension. In a nutshell, it’s trash-talking ...
Reforming HUD’s Presumption of Racial Guilt
Under the current interpretation of the Fair Housing Act, as prescribed by a rule imposed during the Obama Administration, a statistical finding of disparate impact against a protected group is all it takes to prove discrimination. The Trump Administration has proposed a new interpretation that would bring landlords, lenders and ...
Liberals Ignored High Black Unemployment Under Obama, Won’t Celebrate Record Lows Under Trump
Last week, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics posted the lowest overall black unemployment figure ever recorded at 5.4 percent. According to a Project 21 analysis, reported in a press release last week after the jobs report was released, this was the sixth record-low black unemployment rate achieved during the ...
