Author: The National Center

Project 21 Press Release: Black Network Celebrates Civil Rights Anniversary: “Juneteenth” Commemorates the End of Slavery, Promotes Dedication to Self-Determination

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"Juneteenth" - the oldest official celebration marking the end of slavery in America - is observed nationwide on June 19th. Members of the African-American leadership network Project 21 ask African-Americans everywhere to use this day to honor and celebrate the ...
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Project 21 Press Release: Black Network Celebrates Civil Rights Anniversary: “Juneteenth” Commemorates the End of Slavery, Promotes Dedication to Self-Determination – June 2003

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"Juneteenth" - the oldest official celebration marking the end of slavery in America - is observed nationwide on June 19th. Members of the African-American leadership network Project 21 ask African-Americans everywhere to use this day to honor and celebrate the ...
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Black Network Applauds Bush Administration For Aid to Repair Churches; Civil Rights Landmarks May Be Next to Be Helped By Increased White House Willingness to Help Faith-Based Institutions

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A recent change in federal policy to allow government funds to assist in the restoration of historic churches is applauded by members of the Project 21 African-American leadership network. Project 21 members note that the government's new willingness to work ...
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First Amendment Protects Barking But Not Commercial Speech?; Bingo with a Twist; Doctors Flee Pennsylvania

Legal Brief /
Legal Reform: First Amendment Protects Barking, But Not Commercial Speech?An Ohio state appeals court has dismissed a case against a man who barked at a police dog that barked at him first. The city had charged the man with dog ...
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Talking Points on Health Care #22: A Medicare Drug Benefit: If Its Important Enough to Do, It’s Important Enough to Do Properly

A June 18-21, 2003 Zogby International poll measuring the opinions of seniors about then Medicare prescription drug plan then under debate in the Senate, 74% of seniors with drug coverage said it would not be an improvement on their current ...
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Thank You, Brave Eason! by Geoffrey Moore

New Visions Commentary /
After Saddam Hussein's fall, CNN's chief news executive Eason Jordan confessed to covering up 12 years of atrocities perpetrated by the Iraqi government. Over the course of his 13 trips to Iraq, he claimed he grew increasingly distressed by the ...
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The Reparations Pipe Dream and the Tax Cut Reality, by Kevin Martin

New Visions Commentary /
Just when I think I finally have our black "leaders" all figured out, they throw me another curve ball. In the Chicago Sun Times, Jesse Jackson recently railed against the Bush Administration's tax cut, repeating the worn-out liberal mantra that ...
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Crazies Can Spoil a Movement, by Casey Lartigue, Jr.

New Visions Commentary /
At an anti-war "teach-in," a Columbia University professor called for the defeat of American forces in Iraq and said he would like to see "a million Mogadishus" - a reference to the Somali city where American soldiers were ambushed, with ...
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What Jayson Blair Did to Black America, by Kimberley Wilson

New Visions Commentary /
In case you've managed to avoid the story, he's the 27-year-old New York Times reporter who resigned on May 1 after getting caught plagiarizing. In five years, Jayson Blair wrote over 600 stories for the paper, and it now appears ...
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Rolling Over the Facts on SUV Safety, by Amy Ridenour and Eric Peters

National Policy Analysis #465 /
More people were killed last year in rollover-type accidents involving pickups and SUVs than in previous years: statistically speaking, about 1.51 deaths per 100 million vehicle miles traveled.1 But despite alarmist reportage by the major media and SUV-haters in the ...
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