Protect Women Instead of Abortionists, Say Black Activists
Project 21 Backs Louisiana Law Under Supreme Court Scrutiny Washington, D.C. - The Project 21 black leadership network is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold a Louisiana law requiring abortionists to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital, noting that black women are at risk of unnecessary and disproportionate ...
An immigration report card for President Trump, by Stone Washington
Trump has kept several of his most important campaign-trail promises President Trump’s base cares about immigration more than any other issue. Fifty-nine percent of Trump voters named “immigration” as a top-three issue in a recent Harvard/Harris poll. By comparison, just 35 percent listed “terrorism/national security” and only 29 percent said ...
Liberal Rhetoric Rejects Reality
Even though liberals embrace radical, racial issues in an obvious attempt to shore up black support, it is highly likely they are putting their political viability at risk by not focusing on kitchen table issues such as preserving and growing America’s booming economy. After all, a job is the best ...
UVA to Blame for Racial Intolerance
Of all the places where racial intolerance could rear its ugly head, did it have to happen again in Charlottesville, Virginia? In the same city where protests over race and the public display of historic statues of Confederate leaders led to violence and death, how could students at the University ...
Smollett Scandal Leads to Indictments, Vindicating Project 21
Chicagoans were trapped by another bitter freeze last week – similar to that night on January 29 of last year when actor Jussie Smollett called the police to report he had been savagely attacked by two white supremacists. So it seems only fitting that this was when Dan Webb, a ...
Bail Reform Trades Legal Tradition for More Crime
It’s obvious that bail reform isn’t a good idea when even New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is having second thoughts about it. Yet his liberal colleagues are successfully promoting it all across America. In a Newsmax commentary, Project 21 Co-Chairman Horace Cooper argues that these efforts are actually ...
Bail Reform? It Just Causes More Crime
An obscure organization — the Arnold Foundation — has been cheerleading a series of changes to cash bail nationwide. Its supporters claim that being required to post-bail hurts the working poor and minorities disproportionately. They also argue that in most instances bail isn’t even needed. They are wrong. Bail isn't ...
Impeachment Advocates – “They Chose Crazy”
Plumbing the depths of “Trump Derangement Syndrome” after impeachment efforts against the president failed in Congress, Project 21 Co-Chairman Horace Cooper said “the left is decapitating itself” politically. He called the acts of outright and outspoken hatred for the commander-in-chief “crazytown” antics that threaten to “marginalize” critics among the American ...
Impeachment’s End May Be Proponents’ Political Demise
So impeachment is finally over. Now what? In a commentary distributed by InsideSources, Project 21 member Emery McClendon writes that there seems to be “a perpetual campaign of personal destruction” on the part of President Donald Trump’s critics. But those who clapped after the U.S. House of Representatives vote to impeach ...
Liberal Witch Hunt Can’t Burn the President, by Emery McClendon
It’s hard to believe that the overwhelming majority of Americans — whether or not they were ever partisan — haven’t formed an opinion by now about the state of our national politics. After all, we’ve all been forced to endure years of various accusations and investigations that recently culminated in ...
State of the Union Indicates “Exponentially Brighter” Future for Black Americans
Project 21 Condemns “Hatred and Shallowness” on Display by Presidential Critics Washington, D.C. - Responding to the upbeat message in President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address, members of the Project 21 black leadership network commend the progress that black Americans have made in recent years due to lower ...
Jay-Z’s Super Bowl Sit-In Hurts NFL
Did Demi Lovato’s Super Bowl rendition of the national anthem knock Jay-Z and Beyonce off their feet? Unlikely. But until he explains himself, Jay-Z is obviously working against the goal he and the NFL partnered to accomplish not even six months ago. The music mogul really needed to be “Raising ...
Tampa Politician Can’t Brush off Anti-Semitic Comment
What’s worse: just saying something offensive, or knowing that what you said was offensive and trying to deny you meant it? In Tampa, City Councilman Orlando Gudes used a blatantly anti-Semitic slur to complain about a contractor working with the Florida city. While he immediately caught his bad behavior, he ...
Richmond 2A Rally Heralds New Tea Party Movement
When tens of thousands of people showed up in Richmond to speak out against proposed state government restrictions on their Second Amendment rights, it was “a strong lesson that the liberal establishment and its mainstream media allies are selling us lies,” writes Project 21 member Emery McClendon. In a commentary ...
Trump Administration Rule Change Ends ‘Birth Tourism,’ by Christopher Arps
Trump Administration detractors often accuse the administration of issuing controversial policy directives whenever they want to deflect attention away from the latest media generated controversy. Of course, the latest media generated controversy is this sham impeachment trial in the Senate where the President is being charged with obstruction of Congress ...
Racial Reckoning Wrong at The Root
It’s time to revoke Michael Harriot’s wypipologist credentials. The writer for The Root claims to a be a wypipologist (and an Ethiopian king) in his bio. It’s a boast by Harriot, who is black, of his allegedly astute observational powers with regard to white people. But he recently failed dramatically ...
AOC is No MLK
Radical Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said the left needs to be “dangerous” like Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and push extreme policy proposals such as Medicare-for-All and the Green New Deal. But Project 21 member Nadra Enzi challenges her claim, saying that Dr. King was – unlike AOC – a “mainstream ...
Birth Tourism “Unfair,” Exploits 14th Amendment
The latest immigration reform implemented by the Trump Administration stops women from coming to America for the sole purpose of giving birth here. In a RedState commentary, Project 21 member Christopher Arps says the practice of “birth tourism” is exploitative of American law and particularly unfair and offensive since it ...
Justices Seem Willing to Banish Anti-Religious Bigotry
Assessing possible outcomes of a major school choice case before the U.S. Supreme Court, Project 21 Co-Chairman Horace Cooper said on “Fox and Friends”: I believe the Supreme Court is very, very likely to say to Montana – and to the rest of the country – [that] you can’t disfavor religious ...
Black Activists Push for School Choice at Supreme Court
Project 21 Decries Blaine Amendments as Bigoted for Denying Families Best Educational Options Washington, D.C. – The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments today about whether parents should be empowered with the ability to use government-assisted scholarships to enroll their children in religious schools. Members of the Project 21 black ...
