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Horace Cooper on Fox Hannity

Horace Cooper: The Left Believes It Owns Black Americans

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"The left believes that they own certain groups.  They believe they own black Americans. They believe they own women," declared Project 21 Chairman Horace Cooper on the Fox News program "Hannity." Horace joined "Hannity" host Sean Hannity and "Outkick" host ...
Disney's Silence Speaks Volumes After Samuel L. Jackson Insults Conservatives

Disney’s Silence Speaks Volumes After Samuel L. Jackson Insults Conservatives

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When actors choose to use their freedom of speech to offend half the country while promoting a movie, shouldn't we expect the company making the movie to feel responsible for damage control? In a commentary published by the Daily Caller, ...
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Students Thrive When Merit — Not Race — is Rewarded With Opportunity

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In a pair of high-profile commentaries published following the Supreme Court's recent affirmative action decision, two Project 21 ambassadors discussed the implications of race-based school admissions. In a piece syndicated through InsideSources, Project 21's Michael Austin wrote: The nation’s highest ...
Stone Washington: Don't Stop At College — End Race-Based Admissions In Public Schools

Stone Washington: Don’t Stop At College — End Race-Based Admissions In Public Schools

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There’s an important battle brewing in our public schools between equity and treating students equally under the law. Equitable treatment of one class of students always breeds inequitable outcomes for less fortunate students. This discriminatory new form of Affirmative Action ...
You Can Put Lipstick on ESG and Call It Conscientious Capitalism, but It’s Still ESG

You Can Put Lipstick on ESG and Call It Conscientious Capitalism, but It’s Still ESG

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In 1992, Texas's then-Governor Ann Richards famously said, "You can put lipstick on a hog and call it Monique, but it's still a pig." We could well apply her words to BlackRock CEO/Chairman/Emperor Larry Fink, who thinks renaming ESG "conscientious ...
Horace Cooper on Ingraham Angle

Horace Cooper Slams “Stupid” AOC and Discriminatory Affirmative Action

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"Bless her heart, but you really can't be this stupid by accident," Project 21 Chairman Horace Cooper said about Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) after she suggested that Congress should take action to discipline the Supreme Court for decisions she doesn't ...
Horace Cooper and Lawrence Jones on Fox News

Project 21 Praises Supreme Court’s Affirmative Action Decision Across the Airwaves

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As you might expect, ambassadors with our Project 21 black leadership network have been all over the media these last few days to discuss the U.S. Supreme Court striking down affirmative action in higher education admissions. On the Real America's ...
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Michael Austin: Supreme Court Affirms the Truth: Affirmative Action Creates Racial Disharmony

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The Supreme Court has taken a sledgehammer to the bigotry of low expectations. With a 6-3 decision, it ruled that university admission affirmative-action programs are unconstitutional and violate the 14th Amendment. Such a ruling is long overdue; there are innumerable ...
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Are We ‘Anti-ESG’ or Simply ‘Pro-Fiduciary Duty”?

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"Advocates for Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) policies label opponents as 'anti-ESG.' But what we really are is pro-fiduciary-duty," write Scott Shepard and Stefan Padfield -- two members of our Free Enterprise Project (FEP) dream team -- in a new ...
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Black Conservatives Celebrate Supreme Court Ruling to End Racial Preferences in College Admissions

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Washington, D.C. – Ambassadors with the Project 21 black leadership network cheered today’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling on two seminal affirmative action cases: Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College and Students for Fair Admissions, ...

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