Community Investment Before Government Reinvestment, by Richard Holt
Created in 1977 with the intent of ensuring Black folk access to capital for growth in low-income urban and similarly struggling rural areas, the Community Reinvestment Act was an ambitious attempt at solving problems faced by minorities whose loans had been denied at an alarming rate. But simply creating a ...
Biden Voters Finding “This Isn’t What We Expected”
But there aren’t any mean tweets… yet. After a disastrous CNN townhall event, White House staff had to walk back and circle back about many of President Joe Biden’s pronouncements that even the media fact checkers had to admit needed context or were outright wrong. These included his claims that ...
Black Activists Ask Supreme Court to Protect Religious Freedoms of Public Officials
Project 21 Joins Nearly 70 Lawmakers, Faith Leaders and Groups in Support of High School Coach's Right to Pray After Games Washington, D.C. - Calling the firing of a high school football coach who prayed alone on the field after games an "overt hostility to personal religious practice," the Project 21 ...
Black Lives Matter’s Self-Serving Anti-Israel Stance, by Marie Fischer
Before the cease-fire, Hamas terrorists rained down over 3,000 rockets on Israel. Such hostility is nothing new, since Jewish-Muslim tensions trace back to the times of Avraham (Abraham), with respective Jewish and Muslim progenitors Isaac and Ishmael. But enemies of Israel are armed with new social justice weaponry to advance ...
Left-Wing Ties of Domestic Spies
Big-budget movies such as “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” and “True Lies” have pushed storylines of the shock of someone discovering their spouse or significant other is involved in espionage. But the reality appears to be more like the overlooked “Arlington Road,” in which a couple is all-in together in their ...
Powell a Man of Dignity, Dedication and the Epitome of the American Dream
Colin Powell, a major figure in American military and diplomatic affairs, has died at the age of 84. As the first black National Security Advisor, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Secretary of State, Powell’s presence commanded particular impact in the black community. He was also a proponent ...
Biden’s $3.5T Spending Plan Ought to Be Called the Build Bigotry Better Act, by Deroy Murdock
President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better Act should be rechristened the Build Bigotry Better Act. And then it should be buried in a shallow grave on Capitol Hill. This socialist tax-and spendathon, currently pushed by Biden and top congressional Democrats, reputedly would devour $3.2 trillion. As if! Once stripped of accounting gimmicks and augmented with $200 ...
Reducing Crime Through Redevelopment
If the COVID-19 shutdown of the past year-and-a-half wasn’t enough, the increase in violence and crime in America’s cities is dealing a mortal blow to more than just the real estate market: The lack of office workers has not just led to solitary buildings, but also to an absence of ...
Left-Wing Ties of Spy Couple Follow in the Grand Tradition of Treasonous Leftist Couples
How many cases involving couples motivated by left-wing ideas must we see before the media starts asking if there is any correlation to treasonous behavior against America and left-wing ideology? In the wake of the recent arrest of Maryland nuclear engineer, Jonathan Toebbe, and his wife, Diana Toebbe on charges ...
Why Do Liberals Want to Fix Medicare’s Working Drug Benefit? by Stacy Washington
Tax-and-spend liberals on Capitol Hill love to take programs that work well and mangle them in the name of "reform." That's especially true when those programs depend on market-based principles that make progressives see red. So it's no surprise that congressional Democrats want to remake Medicare's prescription drug benefit, a ...
Left Uses Race Narrative “To Keep the Power”
New polling reports that – in a stark difference from two decades ago – the American people think race relations are horrible. Project 21 Director of Member Development Donna Jackson suggests that these results come by design and at the hands of those who are allegedly decrying racism the most! It’s ...
College Students Given Woke Words List
Every year, Brandeis University lets its woke students put together a new list of vocabulary that is either preferred or discouraged among the rest of the student body. While the university says it is “deeply committed to free speech and free expression,” its Prevention, Advocacy and Resource Center nonetheless participates ...
Hypocritical Leftists Left With Egg on Their Faces
“It seems the left is always on the hunt for stories that fit their narrative of America’s prevalent racism, and for perpetrators to punish accordingly.” But, as Project 21 member Marie Fischer points out in a commentary published by The Federalist, there are plenty of unsung stories about the mistreatment of ...
The Left Claims To Oppose Racism While Spewing It At Black Conservatives, by Marie Fischer
Unfortunately, black conservatives are often denigrated with epithets instead of being debated with thoughts and philosophies. It seems the left is always on the hunt for stories that fit their narrative of America’s prevalent racism, and for perpetrators to punish accordingly. Just look at what happened when a man with ...
Removing Kids From Radicalized Schools Hurts Their Funding
Parents who have discovered that their children are learning divisive critical race theory, are being exposed to sexualized content and are being taught in politicized classrooms are now speaking out. When school boards ignore them, they are raising their voices in protest. This exercise of First Amendment rights is being ...
GAO to the Rescue?
Late last month the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a Postal Service Reform Primer purportedly to explain to policymakers how the Postal Service works and why it needs reform. Strangely though the GAO report doesn’t provide great guidance. Known as the “congressional watchdog,” the GAO is a 100-year-old legislative agency ...
Project 21’s Christopher Arps Now Heard Daily on St. Louis Airwaves
Christopher Arps, a political strategist who has been active with the Project 21 black leadership network for over a decade, can now be heard weekdays on St. Louis's new talk radio station, NewsTalk STL. From 3:20pm-6:00pm Central Time, Chris teams up with former Missouri House Speaker Tim Jones for over ...
Biden Budget Plan a “Cause for Alarm”
There’s chaos on Capitol Hill as liberals seek a legislative path to pass the Biden Administration’s massive spending package. “The president’s plan is no cause for celebration,” warns Project 21 Co-Chairman Horace Cooper. “It’s cause for alarm.” In a Newsmax commentary, Horace writes that President Biden – on the ropes ...
Liberal Spending Plan a “Poison Pill” for Pharma
With an explosion of illegal immigration, surging crime, less energy, more inflation and rising racial tensions, combined with the Biden Administration yielding a defeat in Afghanistan, how could things get any worse? They can, according to Project 21 member Deroy Murdock: Next stop: Your medicine chest. In a Fox News ...
Biden’s Border Scandal, and the Media’s Silence
Looking at the Biden Administration's relationship with federal law enforcement personnel along the southern border, Project 21 Co-Chairman Horace Cooper noted that “a ‘beer summit’ is not gonna fix this!” Horace was referring to the 2009 debacle in which then-President Barack Obama declared before a national audience that police in ...
