Category: Project 21

Mandated Testing Can Be a Mendacious Indicator, by Cherylyn Harley LeBon

New Visions Commentary /
Standardized tests are a major factor in charting the career paths of America's children. College and university admissions officers rely on standardized test scores to help them determine if a student's goals are feasible and if they are a good ...
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Dependent and Unable to Do for Self, by B.B. Robinson, Ph.D.

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Black leaders have consistently advocated that black Americans must "do for self." Frederick Douglass promoted education in order to do for self. Booker T. Washington thought the best way to do for self was to train and acquire practical, technical ...
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Obama’s Policies are Causing Moral and Economic Decline, by Deneen Borelli

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Faced with the reality that his policies have failed to spur significant job growth, President Obama is blaming technology for high unemployment. During a recent NBC News interview Obama said, "There are some structural issues with our economy where a ...
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Is Gay Marriage Another Blow to the Struggling African-American Family? by Christopher Arps

New Visions Commentary /
When Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) signed same-sex marriage into law in New York, his action highlighted our country's deep moral decline. What consenting adults do in the privacy of the bedroom is not my business nor concern. My objection to ...
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Black Veterans Critical of Obama’s Afghanistan Plans

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Washington, D.C. - Veterans affiliated with the Project 21 black leadership network are critical of the speech by President Obama last night in which he laid out plans to begin withdrawing substantial American military forces from Afghanistan. "It is unfortunate ...
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Black Activists Criticize Jesse Jackson on Voting Rights

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Controversial Reverend Attacks Election Day Photo ID Requirements as Racist Conspiracy Washington, D.C. - Spokesmen for the Project 21 black leadership network are critical of the Reverend Jesse Jackson's call for federal intervention against state-level efforts to protect voting integrity, ...
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“Juneteenth” Emancipation Observance Marks Revival of Virtues and Values

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Juneteenth Holiday Called a "Celebration of American Freedom" Washington, D.C. - Black conservatives with the Project 21 leadership network urge people to use this year's observance of "Juneteenth" to restore the values and virtues of self-improvement, self-reliance and educational empowerment ...
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Administration Energy Policy Linked to Black Jobless Rate

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Washington, D.C. - As President Obama meets today in North Carolina with his Council on Jobs and Competitiveness and tours a local "green economy" company, members of the black leadership network Project 21 are reminding him that the black unemployment ...
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Despite Congressional Leader’s Claim, Requiring an ID to Vote is Nothing Like Forced Segregation

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America Remembers Jim Crow, and Ballot Security is No Jim Crow Washington, D.C. - Efforts to protect voting integrity are not "literally" equivalent to Jim Crow segregation laws, and claims that they are by a member of the Congressional leadership ...
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Two Leading Liberals Condemned for Playing “Gender Card” to Push for Government Growth

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Washington, D.C. - Cherylyn Harley LeBon and Deneen Borelli of the Project 21 black leadership network today are condemning liberal U.S. Representatives Barney Frank (D-MA) and Lynn Woolsey (D-CA) for falsely alleging that sexism, not policy disagreements, are behind Republican ...
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