Without Police, Who Do You Call for Help?
“As long as I’ve known, Chicago has been a gun-free zone,” Project 21 member Emery McClendon remarked during a recent interview on the Newsmax television network. “Yet there are more gun killings within the city limits than all over the other cities around the nation.” Commenting on the “indiscriminate” violence ...
School Choice Victory at Supreme Court Will “Advance Black Lives”
Discriminatory Blaine Amendments Denied Educational Opportunities to Families in Need Washington, D.C. – Today's U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning Montana's discriminatory "Blaine Amendment" was cheered by members of the Project 21 black leadership network, who called it a major win for poor and minority parents who have been forced into ...
Black Lives Don’t Seem to Matter to Liberal Supreme Court Justices
Project 21 and Justice Clarence Thomas Reject SCOTUS Abortion Decision Washington, D.C. – Members of the Project 21 black leadership network condemned today’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling that overturned a Louisiana law requiring abortionists to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital. Noting that black women are disproportionately at risk ...
Black Activists Applaud White House Outreach to End Chicago Violence
Project 21 to Mayor Lightfoot, Governor Pritzker: “It’s Time to Take ‘Yes’ for an Answer” Washington, D.C. - Activists with the Project 21 black leadership network applauded President Donald Trump’s efforts to reach out to Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker to help end the violence in ...
Read the Letter the NY Times Refused to Print!
The New York Times reported a dubious claim that climate change has a disparate effect on black American mothers. But it was criticism of this shoddy journalism that the so-called "newspaper of record" decided wasn’t fit to print. Project 21 member Donna Jackson had taken exception, saying that the situation ...
Black Activists Ask Kennedy Center to Rescind Tina Fey’s Comedy Prize
After Fey’s Blackface Apology, Project 21 Challenges Taxpayer-Funded Institution to Hold Fey to Her Own Standard Washington, D.C. – The Project 21 black leadership network requested that the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts rescind the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor that it awarded to Tina Fey, ...
Black Opportunity Doesn’t Matter to Black Lives Matter
Amidst the accusations, assaults, destruction and overall mayhem of the recent Antifa and Black Lives Matter-related uprisings, there doesn’t seem to be a clear message about what protesters think is the answer to helping black Americans. Certainly the destruction of memorials to women’s suffrage and a martyred abolitionist in Wisconsin ...
Horace Cooper to Tucker Carlson: America Isn’t a Racist Country
When Bubba Wallace – the only full-time black NASCAR driver – asked the motorsport’s leadership to ban Confederate Battle Flags from races, NASCAR acquiesced despite opposition from many fans. Even though NASCAR rejected gun advertisements last year, it did nothing to prevent Wallace from painting “#BlackLivesMatter” on his car this year ...
Conservatism Brings “Hope and Encouragement” to Black Conservatives
Two Project 21 members are featured in a Daily Signal collection of comments from 19 black Americans who explain why they are conservative. The Daily Signal is The Heritage Foundation’s news website. Dr. Carol M. Swain: I am a conservative because I have tasted and spit out the depressing, self-defeating ...
Defunding Police Puts Black Lives in Peril
Addressing police reform in the wake of George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis, Project 21 member Nadra Enzi– a community organizer and public safety advocate in New Orleans – warns that “we need to take a moment to calm ourselves.” That’s because, as he explains in a point-counterpoint commentary for InsideSoures, ...
Antifa, the Radical Left and Racial Exploitation – A Zoom Event
Tonight, join Project 21 Co-Chairman Stacy Washington and small business owner AK Kamara in an online Zoom presentation entitled "Antifa and the Radical Left: Exploiting Black/White Relations to Make America Red All Over?" Stacy and AK will be discussing how radical left-wing groups are using the race issue in their attempts ...
Defunding Cops Could Be a Costly Proposition
Politico reports that while the notion of defunding the police was “once on the margins,” it is now “driving the debate” when it comes to criminal justice reform and public safety. It’s already gained traction in major American cities including Minneapolis, Los Angeles and New York City. And while its ...
Instead of Hiding Out on Vacation, Kimmel Needs to Answer for Blackface
As woke statue-toppling protests result in corporate rebranding of syrups and cereals and the cancellation of popular television shows, it’s quite obvious that liberal ABC late night host Jimmy Kimmel is hoping a summer hiatus buys him enough time for people to forget about his own minstrel showmanship. On several ...
Tearing Down History to “Feel Good”
Calling them idols and supporting the removal of statues that are deemed by the woke mob to be racist, entrepreneur Jack Brewer said during a recent panel discussion on the Newsmax program “Spicer & Co.” that he disagreed with President Donald Trump on historic preservation. Host Sean Spicer, a former ...
Defunding Police Defeats Public Safety, Especially in Black Communities, by Nadra Enzi
George Floyd’s murder was a horrific crime, and it has literally changed the world. But we need to take a moment to calm ourselves. We must reflect on our goals for fixing law enforcement problems before letting radical activists take control of the criminal justice reform agenda. That’s because — ...
This Saturday, Join Horace Cooper for a “Constitutional Chat” About Juneteenth
You are invited to join Constituting America for a Zoom presentation this Saturday night about Juneteenth, the Emancipation Proclamation and the 13th Amendment. The special guest for this edition of “Constitutional Chats” is Project 21 Co-Chairman Horace Cooper. Horace has taught constitutional law at the George Mason University School of ...
Reform Police: Recommit to Law Enforcement
Defunding the police is just not an option. In a new essay published by National Review, Project 21 Co-Chairman Horace Cooper and former Justice Department official John Yoo call out the craziness of the left’s demand that governments actually take money away from police departments as a method of criminal ...
Juneteenth Observances Should Focus on Opportunity, Not Fear and Anger
"Society wants us to succeed, but it's up to us to want to succeed" Washington, D.C. - In advance of "Juneteenth," the oldest and most recognized commemoration of the end of slavery in the United States, members of the Project 21 black leadership network urged black Americans to avoid pitfalls ...
Uncomfortable Around Cops? Don’t Call 911
LEGO – the children’s toymaker – joined the black box brigade last week that sought to make sure people knew that it was against racism. It was, as they say, a stunning and brave moment. Then it got freakish and cowardly. Corporate headquarters sent out word that it would stop ...
Sharpton’s “Lucrative” Political Lifestyle Exposed
On a recent edition of “The Ingraham Angle” on the Fox News Channel, host Laura Ingraham asked Project 21 Co-Chairman Horace Cooper: “Why does [Al] Sharpton keep getting away with this really lame act?” Ingraham was referring to Sharpton's habit of showing up and injecting himself into as many “civil ...
