Category: Project 21

Project 21 Press Release: Blacks Back Bush on Social Security Reform; Allowing Personal Investment and Control Retirement Savings Called a Benefit for Black America

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Black activists from the Project 21 leadership network applaud President George W. Bush's calls to reform Social Security by allowing people to directly control a portion of their payroll taxes and be able to transfer these funds to others upon ...
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Project 21 Press Release: Black Network Hails Frist Judicial Compromise

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A proposal offered by Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) to preserve robust debate over judicial nominees is being praised by members of the Project 21 black leadership network. Over the past two years, procedural delays have prevented judicial nominees ...
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Five Suggestions for Michael Jackson, by Kimberley Jane Wilson

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While shopping recently, I ended up in one of those boxy, warehouse-like stores with a dreaded common dressing room. Four women of different races, ages, shapes and sizes pretended not to notice each other. Suddenly, we heard Michael Jackson's voice ...
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Social Security Reform for All Retirees, Present and Future, by Ak’bar Shabazz

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Social Security is in dire condition. Most agree that benefits for present retirees should be protected. At the same time, it's equally important to make sure younger generations - future retirees - see a return on the billions of dollars ...
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The Poor Deserve More Than Reimports. by Council Nedd II and Leslie O. Anderson

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In the Bible, the Book of Proverbs has a passage which reads, "a good person knows the rights of the poor, but the wicked cannot understand such things." The Gospel of St. Matthew talks about society's obligation to the "the ...
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Terri Schiavo: America’s Lost Hope, by Djana Milton

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Terri Schiavo, a woman who collapsed at 26 and suffered severe brain damage, is dead because her husband and our justice system determined that her life wasn't worth living. Many of us never seriously contemplate our own deaths, especially at ...
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Project 21 Press Release: Black Network Demands Black Judicial Nominee Be Judged on Her Competence

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Janice Rogers Brown, an associate justice on the California Supreme Court who has been nominated to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, is scheduled for a vote in the Senate Judiciary Committee on April 21. Members of ...
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Project 21 Press Release: Project 21 Members Hail Committee Action on Filling One Judicial Vacancy, But Note That Struggle To Fill Judicial Vacancies Promptly Continues

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Janice Rogers Brown, nominated to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, was approved in the Senate Judiciary Committee on April 21 by a 10-8 party-line vote. Senate liberals, however, imply resumed filibusters will keep her and other ...
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Project 21 Press Release: Black Activists Criticize NAACP for Filibuster Flip-Flop; Civil Rights Group Now Supports Senate Tactic That Hobbled Civil Rights Legislation

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Members of the black leadership organization Project 21 are criticizing the NAACP for endorsing filibusters against Bush Administration judicial nominees, calling the NAACP endorsement contradictory to the group's past position, when filibusters halted the progress of civil rights bills. "For ...
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Black Activists Rap Rangel for Opposing Social Security Reform; Congressman’s “Disappointing” Rant Reduces Chances for Black Empowerment

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Recent remarks by Congressman Charlie Rangel (D-NY) calling President George W. Bush's proposal to reform the nation's ailing Social Security system "fraud" and its promotion an "impeachable offense" are condemned by members of the black leadership network Project 21. Reform ...
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