Category: Project 21

Boycott the NAACP! by Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson

New Visions Commentary /
Boycotts are an effective means for achieving social change. The Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott was a key point in the struggle for civil rights. Southern Baptists are boycotting the Walt Disney Company to protest the company's moves away from family-friendly ...
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A Man of the (Tattered) Cloth, by Michael King

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Reprints permitted provided source is credited. Reverend Arthur Allen is the man at the center of a maelstrom. Allen is pastor of a 150-member-strong church - The House of Prayer - in Northwest Atlanta. The church is the focus of ...
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How To Raise a Thug, by Kimberley Jane Wilson

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Reprints permitted provided source is credited. "My baby is a good boy! He didn't do nothing wrong!" The woman who spoke these words sat crying in a rocking chair on her porch. Her 18-year-old son was in jail awaiting trial ...
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New Gasoline May Force Blacks to Run on Empty, by Syd Gernstein

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Reprints permitted provided source is credited. There has never been a worse time for the government to push policies that would raise gasoline prices, especially since they've risen almost 45% over the past year. But this is exactly what the ...
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The Media Proves McWhorter Right: Some African-American Youth Believe Academic Excellence is Not “Cool,” by Dr. B.B. Robinson

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Reprints permitted provided source is credited. A great deal of controversy surrounds Berkeley Professor John H. McWhorter's recent book, Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America. In his book, McWhorter argues that contemporary African-American youth - the Generation Xers - ...
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Black Network Opposes Attack on Motherhood: School’s Rejection of Mother’s Day Activities Just Part of Larger Attack on Traditional Families

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Unlike the administrators of the Rodeph Sholom Day School in New York City, members of the African-American leadership network Project 21 are proud to celebrate Mother's Day this Sunday. Project 21 members were shocked to learn that the school has ...
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Motherhood Under Attack, by Rita Thompson

New Visions Commentary /
A New Visions Commentary paper published May 2001 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. Motherhood can be ...
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The Decline and Fall of Jesse Jackson, by Kevin Martin

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A New Visions Commentary paper published May 2001 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. At one time ...
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Elian and Juan Gonzalez, Clinton, Castro, Reno, Blacks, Liberals and Freedom, by Kevin Martin

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On April 22, I awoke to the rumblings of a communist state here in America. Federal agents, under orders from Bill Clinton and Janet Reno, broke down the door of Lazaro Gonzalez's home in Miami to forcibly reunite little Elian ...
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Who Should Pay for Reparations? Black Americans… Obviously, by Mike Green

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Reprints permitted provided source is credited. Who should pay for reparations? Black Americans... obviously. Black Americans have pondered a debt due for slavery since Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. Few would deny a debt is owed for the centuries of ...
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