Earbuds. That’s the latest passion of New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg. It’s no longer that someone might be playing their music too loud and disturbing the neighbors. Now, the mayor wants to jack into kids’ iPods to make sure ... READ MORE
Ex-Gov. Jeb Bush has a new book out in which he advocates a pathway to “legal residency” but not citizenship for the estimated 11 million illegal aliens presently in the U.S. They would never be allowed to become citizens, something ... READ MORE
What do you think the odds are that you’d find a member of Congress who is enthusiastic about the sequester? If you said, “Slim and None, and Slim is walking out the door,” you’d be generous. So why, as the ... READ MORE
As the government hovers on the edge of sequestration budget restrictions, members of the Project 21 black leadership network are speaking out about the failure of liberal policymaking that has led us to this point. Hughey P. Newsome: While the ... READ MORE
How do you feel about an absentee landlord who accumulate acres and acres of productive land, then neglects it so it produces little and becomes so overgrown it’s a fire hazard to the neighbors? Not good, right? Well, that absentee ... READ MORE
In a recent New Visions Commentary entitled “Politics and Pawns,” Project 21 black leadership network member Hughey Newsome suggested that President Obama callously used the heartfelt concerns of the American people – like pawns on a chessboard – in 2011 ... READ MORE
Project 21 member Niger Innis, whose family has suffered greatly from gun-related violence, decried liberal attempts to further regulate the ability of law-abiding Americans to own and use firearms. At the 2/22/13 “Black Leaders Speak Out on Gun Control” press ... READ MORE
At the 2/22/13 “Black Leaders Speak Out on Gun Control” press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., Project 21 member Stacy Swimp discusses the racist underpinnings of early gun control laws that were enforced in the Reconstruction-era ... READ MORE
Where’s Sam Donaldson when we need him? A combination of new media (such as Facebook and Twitter) and the decline of old media (the Washington Post just laid off dozens of staff and is contemplating selling its headquarters) gives a ... READ MORE
Grover Whitehurst, now a scholar at the Brookings Institution, has spent much of his career developing learning programs for young children. He recently wrote two very good essays asking if we could be “hard headed” about Head Start and Universal Pre-K by admitting ... READ MORE
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