Our Founders Should Be Held in High Regard
Not only are our founding documents such as the Constitution and Declaration of Independence being called discriminatory, but the very building that holds them – the National Archives in Washington, D.C. – is said to be rife with “structural racism.” What’s worse is that these accusations are not being heaped ...
Horace Cooper Finds Liberals Lacking on Communism, Election Integrity
State lawmakers in Texas fled to Washington, D.C. in an effort to deny the Lone Star State’s legislature the quorum necessary to consider voter integrity legislation. In chartered private jets, these liberal politicians flew away from the duties for which they campaigned in Texas. Instead, they plan to lobby in ...
Watch LIVE – Project 21’s Marie Fischer at the U.S. Capitol
Marie Fischer, a member of the National Center’s Project 21 black leadership network, is scheduled to speak at the “No Fear” rally against antisemitism in Washington, D.C. on Sunday, July 11. The rally begins at 1:00pm eastern, and will be held on the west side of the U.S. Capitol Building ...
Limiting Access to Online Lending will Hurt Black Entrepreneurs, by Richard Holt
We desperately need more growth to rebuild the post-COVID American economy. Yet liberals are hard at work waging war on business in general, and on minority entrepreneurs in particular. While large corporations have fewer problems applying for and receiving loans, the hundreds of thousands of black Americans who are self-employed ...
“Expert” Predictions No Substitute for Regulatory Safeguards Today
“If the predictions of the environmental ‘experts’ and their models over the course of my life were true, I’d already be dead.” In a Townhall commentary, Project 21 member Derrick Hollie makes a compelling case against the Biden Administration’s interest in an alleged long-term assessment of the “social cost” of ...
Black Activists Applaud Supreme Court Ruling for Voter Integrity
Decision Aligns With Project 21 Brief Against Ballot Harvesting, Out-of-Precinct Voting Washington, D.C. - Affirming a major safeguard for voter integrity, the U.S. Supreme Court today upheld an Arizona ban on “ballot harvesting.” Members of the Project 21 black leadership network said this decision, coupled with the recent defeat of ...
Racism in the Name of Racial Harmony?
Noting that the leftist grip on the culture creates “privilege for some” in America, Project 21 Co-Chairman Horace Cooper laid the blame for current racial problems, and the chaos created by them, at the feet of progressive protesters and their supporters. “There’s racism that Americans just won’t do,” Horace said, ...
Cosby Decision Shows Justice “Ultimately Works”
On June 30, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned the 2018 verdict in Bill Cosby’s sexual assault case. The comedian was released from prison that same day. Project 21 Co-Chairman Horace Cooper has been a longtime observer and commentator on the Cosby case. He was highly critical of the unsealing of ...
Defunding the Police Creates a Lawless Society
To borrow a phrase made popular by Barack Obama’s spiritual mentor, the “chickens are coming home to roost” for liberals on the issue of crime. As Project 21 members pointed out in Newsmax TV interviews, the defund-the-police agenda pushed by the left is creating an environment where respect for the ...
Biden “Has His Favorites,” and Black Americans Aren’t Among Them
Before she logged off to host her own internationally-broadcast radio show, Stacy Washington – co-chairman of the National Center’s Project 21 black leadership network – appeared on Newsmax TV's “Spicer & Co.” to reject the leftist narrative that “systemic racism” is keeping black Americans down. Asked by guest host Tom ...
To Succeed, the U.S. Postal Service Should Emulate Ben Franklin
With all of the political division in Congress, it’s a pleasant surprise that one of the few areas of bipartisan support comes in the form of a plan to revamp the United States Postal Service (USPS) to make it more efficient and self-sufficient. While some want to shutter the USPS, ...
Assessing the Racial Cost of Regulation, by Derrick Hollie
If the predictions of the environmental “experts” and their models over the course of my life were true, I’d already be dead. Born in the late 1960s, I persevered through threats of famine, drought, a diminishing ozone layer, acid rain, killer bees, a new ice age, global warming and more ...
Baseball’s Bad Pitch for Black America
When the umpire yells “play ball” at the start of the All-Star Game on July 13, it will be in the overwhelmingly white city of Denver instead of the intended majority-black city of Atlanta. That’s because Major League Baseball (MLB) felt the need to virtue-signal about how much it was ...
The ‘Endless Frontier Act’ Slush Fund Is a Bad Idea
Do we have to become China to beat China? Apparently, some Republicans think so. Dozens in the House and Senate recently joined with Democrats to push a plan to use the byzantine protocols of government bureaucracies as a way to give the U.S. a leg up in industrial competition with ...
After Juneteenth, Should We Remember the Alamo?
On June 17, President Joe Biden signed a law creating the June 19 Juneteenth national holiday. And then the federal government promptly closed on June 18 because a national holiday that falls on a weekend must be recognized during the workweek. Kinda distracts from the solemnity of marking a major ...
Who Needs a Juneteenth Holiday When We Have Independence Day?
Project 21 has brought attention to the emancipation-related celebration of “Juneteenth” for over 20 years. But, despite our members using the annual observance for more than a generation to promote self-help and the value of seizing on America’s opportunity, there has been little interest among them to make Juneteenth an ...
More Project 21 Skepticism for a Juneteenth Day Off
Congress is progressing toward the establishment of a full-fledged, day-off federal holiday for the Juneteenth observance of the end of slavery. Project 21 members, who have supported the Juneteenth message of self-improvement and opportunity for decades, expressed concern about the upgrade and questioned the motives for it. In a press ...
Juneteenth Supporters Distance Themselves From Federal Holiday Proposal
Black Activists Oppose Politicization of Emancipation Celebration Washington, D.C. - Despite more than twenty years of acknowledging the importance of Juneteenth, members of the Project 21 black leadership network refrained from encouraging a rush into making the emancipation-themed celebration a formal national holiday. "Juneteenth is already everything but a national ...
Major League Baseball Strikes Out Again on Black America, by Martin Baker
By moving the All-Star Game from Atlanta to Denver because Georgia is protecting peoples’ votes, Major League Baseball is hypocritical in its rationale. MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred stated that the “best way to demonstrate our values as a sport” would be to move the upcoming All-Star Game and its Entry ...
Better Things to Fight for Than Juneteenth, by Donna Jackson
Like many Black Americans, I must admit that I had never heard of Juneteenth until recently. So the push now to make this celebration of emancipation a national holiday certainly didn’t come from me or anyone I know. It sure seems as though it’s part of a bigger agenda being ...
