Category: Project 21

American Trial Lawyers Take Aim at Beleaguered South African Economy, by John Meredith

National Policy Analysis #489 /
America's 34-million African-Americans should be outraged by the campaign of economic blackmail that a handful of profit-driven personal injury lawyers are waging against the financially beleaguered Republic of South Africa. Against the expressed wishes of the revered Nelson Mandela and ...
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American Trial Lawyers Take Aim at Beleaguered South African Economy, by John Meredith

New Visions Commentary /
  A New Visions Commentary paper published October 2003 by The National Center for Public Policy Research, 501 Capitol Ct., N.E., Washington, DC 20002, 202/543-4110, Fax 202-543-5975, E-Mail [email protected], Web http://www.nationalcenter.org. Reprints permitted provided source is credited. America's 34-million African-Americans ...
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Parents Beware: Chain Stores Going Crazy Selling “Girls Gone Wild”

New Visions Commentary /
A New Visions Commentary paper published October 2003 by The National Center for Public Policy Research. Reprints permitted provided source is credited. Probably thinking of himself as being on the cutting edge of the civil rights struggle, rapper Snoop Dogg ...
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LeBron James and 50 Cent – Public Enemies #1, by Bruce H. Edwards

New Visions Commentary /
A New Visions Commentary paper published October 2003 by The National Center for Public Policy Research. Reprints permitted provided source is credited. Across America, bouncing basketballs are heard a little more often. "Professional basketball player" reigns as the top answer ...
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Project 21 Press Release: Black Conservatives Attending World Trade Organization Meeting in Cancun – September 2003

New Visions Commentary, Press Release /
Project 21 Members Attending WTO Talks on Agriculture Policy Two members of the African-American leadership network Project 21 are attending the World Trade Organization ministerial meeting in Cancun, Mexico (September 10-14) and are available to the media for comments on ...
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Tinkering With Energy is Playing With Fire: Cap and Trade Schemes are Regressive, Placing Burdens on Low-Income Communities

National Policy Analysis #490 /
Hopes for a swift and lasting economic recovery could be dashed if Congress approves a misbegotten scheme that two independent government agencies have concluded will send energy prices through the roof. The "Climate Stewardship Act of 2003" (S. 139), introduced ...
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Homosexual School More About Social Policy Than Socialization, by Mychal Massie

New Visions Commentary /
New York City now has a high school exclusively for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender children, an expansion of a two-classroom alternative school that has operated for years. Its principal claims, "This school will be a model for the country, ...
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The Mixed Blessing of Affirmative Action, by Matthew Craig

New Visions Commentary /
Endorsement of affirmative action policies that allow schools to continue using race as a factor in student admissions can, at best, be seen as a mixed blessing for the black community. But while the U.S. Supreme Court acknowledges that blacks ...
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Black and Conservative in America, by Sean Turner

New Visions Commentary /
A child of the 70s, I grew up in a typical two-parent, middle-income household. My father, then a U.S. Navy man honorably serving his country, carried much of the discipline he acquired in the military into parenting. Much of that ...
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Jim Crow’s New Face, by La Shawn Barber

New Visions Commentary /
Legal segregation of the races is an embarrassing part of America's history. Called Jim Crow after a black character from an 1840s minstrel show, the laws prescribed separate facilities for blacks and whites from around 1865 until the 1960s. "Separate ...
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