Category: Project 21
Big Government’s Focus on Fines and Fees Disparately Impacts Poor, Minority Communities
Black Leaders Offer Better Deal From the Criminal Justice System Washington, D.C. – Law enforcement agencies focus too much on revenue-generating activities that have a negative impact on poor and minority communities, further straining the relationship between police and the ...
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Farm Bill, Compliant With Project 21’s Blueprint, Gets Second Vote in June
Welfare reform found in the Farm Bill that is considered compliant with Project 21’s “Blueprint for a Better Deal for Black America” is expected to get another chance in the U.S. House of Representatives in June. Language in the “Agriculture ...
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Is Starbucks-Style “Racial Bias Training” Discriminatory?
Black Activists Ask Justice Department, EEOC to Investigate “Troubling Trend” Targeting Employees’ Race and Gender Washington, DC. – Over 8,000 Starbucks locations nationwide will close today to counsel approximately 175,000 employees about how to avoid their “implicit bias… [to] ensure ...
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Project 21’s “Blueprint” Makes Fox Business Network
In a recent panel discussion with Neil Cavuto on the Fox Business Network, Project 21 Co-Chairman Stacy Washington cited our “Blueprint for a Better Deal for Black America” as constructive tool for bring lawmakers together on issues that can really ...
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Black Women Applaud Trump Administration Getting Government Out of Abortion Business
To ensure that taxpayers “do not indirectly fund abortions,” the Trump Administration has issued a proposal to reform the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Family Planning Program (Title X) funding. This move is strongly supported by black women ...
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Black Leaders Meet With Ben Carson and Praise the Secretary for his Work Requirement Proposal for Subsidized Housing
HUD Welfare Reform Efforts “Compliant” With Project 21’s “Blueprint for a Better Deal for Black America” Washington, DC. – During a meeting with Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Ben Carson, representatives from the Project 21 black leadership network informed ...
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Better Deal for Black College Students: Make Schools Meet Minimum Graduation Rates, Stop Tuition Inflation and End Campus Segregation
Black Leaders Suggest Linking Federal Student Aid to Policies That Help Black Students Succeed Washington, D.C. – Failures by K-12 school systems to prepare black students for college are compounded by inadequate college admissions policies and support programs, according to ...
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Black Leaders Praise Proposed Food Stamp Work Requirement in Farm Bill
Provision “Compliant” With Project 21’s “Blueprint for a Better Deal for Black America” Washington, D.C. – A provision of the “Agriculture and Nutrition Act of 2018” (HR 2, the “Farm Bill”) requiring able-bodied recipients who receive food stamp benefits to ...
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“America’s Constable” Discusses Life in Law Enforcement
It took almost five decades before Project 21 Co-Chairman Council Nedd II realized he had a true vocation in law enforcement. Now, in a new Daily Caller commentary published during National Police Week, he discusses the “life-long calling” and the ...
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Left “Marginalizing” Illegal Immigrants, But John Kelly is Deemed the Racist
In the ongoing effort to sensationalize and demonize the Trump Administration, a rather mundane comment by White House Chief of Staff John Kelly is being called “ignorant” and “racist” by the left-wing media. Project 21 Co-Chairman Horace Cooper, in an ...
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