Category: Project 21

Black Activists Ask U.S. Supreme Court to Invalidate Outdated Section of Voting Rights Act

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Washington, DC - As the U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments today in the voting rights case Northwest Austin Municipal Utility District Number One v. Holder, the Project 21 black leadership network is joining with other organizations to ask that this ...
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Green Trumps Black and White for Television Diversity, by Devon Carlin

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Green Trumps Black and White for Television Diversity by Devon Carlin Complaints about a racial "white-out" on television are common, but are they valid? As network executives contemplate fall schedules, they undoubtedly have the concerns of the NAACP on their ...
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Disconnect on Accuracy Doesn’t Add Up, by Jeffery Temple

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Disconnect on Accuracy Doesn't Add Up by Jeffery Temple (bio) Remember how important every vote was in the 2000 election?  Back then, and in subsequent close elections, the message has been that every vote counts. Imagine that those votes were ...
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World Peace Comes Through Strength, by Ak’Bar A. Shabazz

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  World Peace Comes Through Strength by Ak'Bar A. Shabazz (bio) Imagine if, when local governments meet to create a budget for their police departments, they entertain requests from criminals against buying bulletproof vests and other protective gear. After all, ...
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Anti-Gun Laws Favor Criminals, by Mychal Massie

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Anti-Gun Laws Favor Criminals by Mychal Massie (bio) On April 3, three Pittsburgh cops were brutally murdered in the line of duty. Eric Kelly, Stephen Mayhle and Paul Sciullo II were senselessly murdered while responding to a domestic violence call.  ...
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Conservative Black Group Challenges Liberal Urban League’s “State of Black America 2009” Report

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Washington, DC - This year’s edition of the liberal National Urban League's annual State of Black America report fails to effectively challenge the Obama Administration, is unnecessarily dreary and makes recommendations that would be harmful, say members of the conservative ...
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Supreme Court Decision Against Racial Gerrymandering Hailed

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Washington, D.C. - Project 21 Chairman Mychal Massie today hailed a new U.S. Supreme Court decision prohibiting the use of the Voting Rights Act to supercede other laws to create predominantly black voting districts, saying the decision is a new ...
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Hurricane Katrina Hypocrisy, by Kevin Martin

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Hurricane Katrina Hypocrisy by Kevin Martin (bio) Since Hurricane Katrina, liberal critics have hung the plight of New Orleans around the neck of former President Bush like an albatross. These critics relentlessly hounded the Bush Administration for its "inadequate" response ...
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Real Stimulus: Reform How Banks Shop Credit Cards, by Bishop Council Nedd II

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Americans are justifiably distraught over the home foreclosure crisis and the glut of delinquent debt.  They are also upset and perplexed by the capricious nature of the government's rush to rescue the financial institutions central to the problem. It's not ...
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Maxine Waters’ Leaky Argument Can’t Wash Away Banking Scandal Dirt, by Kevin Martin

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Banks pushed risky loans to people who could not afford them.  Homeownership was promoted as a right for all instead of one for those who saved. Since the mortgage bubble burst, leaving many in financial trouble, a lot of anger ...
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