Year: 2003

New Visions Commentary: Affirmative Action Hurts Historically Black Colleges and Universities, by Sean Turner

Morris Brown College in Atlanta, Georgia, having recently lost its accreditation, has suspended its sports programs and laid off its coaches. Unfortunately, Morris Brown is not alone among a growing list of historically black colleges and universities, or HBCUs, that ...
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Black Conservatives Available for Comment on California Race Initiative

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Members of the African-American leadership network Project 21 are available for comment on Proposition 54 - the "Racial Privacy Initiative" - that will be decided by California voters on October 7. Proposition 54 would prohibit California state agencies from classifying ...
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Black Group Opposes Civil Rights Commission Environmental Justice Report

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Commissioners of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights will meet in Albuquerque, New Mexico on October 17, 2003 to vote on the endorsement of a staff report that proposes changes to the federal government's "environmental justice" policy. Members of the ...
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New Visions Commentary: LeBron James and 50 Cent – Public Enemies #1, by Bruce H. Edwards

Across America, bouncing basketballs are heard a little more often. "Professional basketball player" reigns as the top answer when young black boys are asked what they want to be when they grow up. A close second is being a rapper ...
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Medicare Perspective Index (With a Nod to Harper’s Index) – by Edmund F. Haislmaier (PDF file)

MEDICARE PERSPECTIVE INDEX COMPILED BY EDMUND F. HAISLMAIER Pages in the House passed Medicare bill.1 747 Pages in the Senate passed Medicare bill.2 1,043 Estimated pages in the Medicare bill reported out of Conference Committee.3 1,100 Pages in the Clinton ...
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New Visions Commentary: After the Voucher Wars, Poor School Kids in Cleveland Now Have A Chance, by Darryn “Dutch” Martin

As a product of Cleveland's public school system, I can attest to its dismal state. To say that poor, inner-city students in Cleveland were not receiving a quality education would be like saying Michael Jordan is good at basketball. The ...
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In Case of the Diluting Druggist, No Good Deed Goes Unpunished

Project 21 Commentary /
Imagine this cinematic scenario: Superman, America's most famous superhero, saves a helpless baby in a perilous situation. Flying in at the last moment, our hero swoops up the helpless, adorable baby and places him safely in his anxious mother's arms ...
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On Affirmative Action, Liberals Promote Fear Over Progress, by Ak’bar Shabazz

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It seems chic in liberal circles to elicit black support by telling us we can't succeed without their help. Liberal expectations of black students are obviously low. Their confidence in our natural abilities and intellect isn't strong by any means ...
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Lott Had to Go, by Kimberley Jane Wilson

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When Senator Trent Lott (R-MS) woke up on the morning of Senator Strom Thurmond's (R-SC) 100th birthday celebration, I'm sure he had no idea that he and his big mouth would be the biggest political story of last December. Lott, ...
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