Category: Project 21

Why the “N” Word Grows in Popularity, by Jeffrey Hicks

New Visions Commentary /
The "n-word" is perhaps the most emotionally-loaded term in the English language. Throughout its history, the n-word's usage was primarily meant to dehumanize, debase and dishonor African-Americans.  In the "good old days," the word was used by bigots with either ...
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Oprah Shouldn’t Give Up on Our Kids, by Deneen Borelli

New Visions Commentary /
After visiting our nation's failing urban public schools, Oprah Winfrey felt frustrated.  In an interview with Newsweek magazine, she said:  "I became so frustrated with visiting inner-city schools in the U.S.  The sense that you need to learn just isn't ...
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Project 21 Press Release: Black Activist Takes Issue with School Choice Opposition

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Senator Edward Kennedy's (D-MA) opposition to a proposed revision of the federal "No Child Left Behind" educational policy to allow school choice is evidence of an elitist attitude and a willingness to put the desires of the teachers' unions over ...
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Black Activist Criticizes Nagin’s Convoluted Comments to Senate Committee

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Calling his testimony a "smokescreen" to cover up his own failings at the outset of the Hurricane Katrina crisis, members of the black leadership network Project 21 are criticizing the racially-charged rhetoric of New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin (D) before ...
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Black Activists Outraged Over Liberal Merger of Abortion and Civil Rights

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Inclusion of Planned Parenthood in a self-described civil rights coalition has outraged members of the black leadership network Project 21, as Planned Parenthood advocates and provides abortions - particularly in the black community. "How can a civil rights group that ...
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Project 21 Press Release: Senator Boxer’s Insult of Condoleezza Rice Condemned by Black Conservatives

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Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) is being criticized by members of the black leadership network Project 21 for implying that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice lacks a proper perspective on the War on Terror in Iraq because she does not have ...
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Project 21 Press Release: Black Activists Hail Stem Cell Breakthrough

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With the announcement that researchers have found that stem cells obtained from a mother's amniotic fluid appear to have similar properties and exhibit the same healing potential as stem cells harvested from human embryos, members of the black leadership network ...
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Black Activists Praise President Bush’s Aid, Support for Africa

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Members of the black leadership network Project 21 applaud President Bush for his largely unrecognized work to aid the African continent through a dramatic increase in humanitarian and developmental aid as well as increased trade and diplomatic interest during his ...
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Project 21 Press Release: Black Activists Comment on the Debate Over Troop Levels in Iraq

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Now that President George W. Bush has formally announced that 21,500 more soldiers and Marines will be sent to Iraq, and some criticism has been raised by liberals in Congress, veterans who are members of the black leadership network Project ...
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Black Activists Applaud Court’s Support for Race-Neutral Admissions

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In the wake of an appeals court decision ordering resistant Michigan universities to immediately implement the race-neutral admission standards overwhelmingly approved by voters, members of the black leadership network Project 21 demand an end to obstructionist legal challenges of the ...
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