Category: Project 21

Making Sense of Mexico, by Jeffrey Brian Hicks

New Visions Commentary /
While trying to morally justify the continuous and illegal flow of Mexican nationals over our border, Mexican President Vicente Fox recently sparked an uproar that may be telling about Mexican society. With national security and economic concerns related to this ...
READ MORE

Project 21 Press Release: Black Activists Ask Bush to Consider Constructionist Jurists for Supreme Court; List of Characteristics Important to Black Americans Cited

Press Release /
Today's announcement of a vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court provides President George W. Bush with an important duty that has the potential to affect judicial decision-making for generations to come. Members of the black leadership network Project 21 are ...
READ MORE

New HIV/AIDS Statistics Show Blacks “Most Severely Impacted” Group; Black Americans Urged to Adopt a “Conservative Lifestyle”

Press Release /
With the release of startling new government figures on HIV and AIDS showing African-Americans are the "most severely impacted" community, members of the black leadership network Project 21 are repeating a call to black Americans to be more conscious of ...
READ MORE

Project 21 Press Release: Black Activist Decries Civil Rights Apologists; Senate Apology for Lynching Perpetuates “Posture of the Victim”

Press Release /
On June 13, the U.S. Senate passed a resolution by a voice vote apologizing to the victims, survivors and descendent of racist lynchings that occurred between 1882 and 1968. The first anti-lynching legislation was introduced 105 years ago. Such legislation ...
READ MORE

Learning Clarence Thomas’s First Principles, by Darryn “Dutch” Martin

New Visions Commentary /
From his gut-wrenching confirmation hearings in 1991 through his past 13 years on the bench, Clarence Thomas is likely the most misunderstood justice ever to sit on the United States Supreme Court. As a black conservative jurist, he continues to ...
READ MORE

The Lionel Tate Saga Continues, by Darryn “Dutch” Martin

New Visions Commentary /
Lionel Tate is back in the news again. Tate is the young black boy from Florida who was convicted of brutally murdering a six-year-old girl when he was only 12 and became the youngest person in American history to be ...
READ MORE

“Crash” Causes Pain, by B.B. Robinson

New Visions Commentary /
Recent box office receipts indicate a significant number of people are taking notice of "Crash," a recent movie that attempts to explain why each of us may hold certain notions about other ethnic groups. Douglas Young, on the Internet Movie ...
READ MORE

Janice Rogers Brown’s Equal Justice, by Craig DeLuz

New Visions Commentary /
One of the most contentious of President George W. Bush's judicial nominees was California Supreme Court Associate Justice Janice Rogers Brown.  Highly rated by the American Bar Association, Justice Brown is praised by her peers on the California Supreme Court, ...
READ MORE

Project 21 Press Release: Black Activists Praise Janice Rogers Brown; Say Nominee “Epitomizes the Greatness of America”

Press Release /
Activists from the black leadership network Project 21 are praising Senate leaders for their efforts to secure an up-or-down vote on the nomination of California Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown for a seat on the federal Circuit Court of ...
READ MORE

Project 21 Press Release: Black Activists Praise Priscilla Owen, Call Her “One of the Finest Jurists in the Country”

Press Release /
Activists from the black leadership network Project 21 are praising Senate leaders for their efforts to secure an up-or-down vote on the nomination of Texas Supreme Court Justice Priscilla Owen for a seat on the federal 5th Circuit Court of ...
READ MORE

The National Center for Public Policy Research is a communications and research foundation supportive of a strong national defense and dedicated to providing free market solutions to today’s public policy problems. We believe that the principles of a free market, individual liberty and personal responsibility provide the greatest hope for meeting the challenges facing America in the 21st century.