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Cooper Criticizes Civil Rights Enforcement Shift from “Racism Punishment” to “Racism Prevention”

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Discussing problems regarding current adjudication of the almost 50-year-old Voting Rights Act, Project 21 co-chairman Horace Cooper says “it is the enforcement in the name of the preclearance standard that is the subject of the problem.” Specifically, Horace tells his ...
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In Virginian-Pilot, Project 21’s Dillard Calls Section 5 “Relic of the Past”

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Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act and the “preclearance” standards the law imposes on select states and localities will undergo constitutional scrutiny on February 27 as the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court hear arguments in the case of ...
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Project 21’s Cooper: Voting Law Flaw Stems from Different Standard for Different States

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Explaining why it is now up to the U.S. Supreme Court to reform the Voting Rights Act in the case of Shelby County, Alabama v. Eric Holder, Project 21 co-chairman Horace Cooper easily dispels the rhetoric of the other MSNBC ...
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Where Did Obama’s Compassion Go? Project 21’s Hughey Newsome Wants to Know

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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 ...
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Project 21’s Innis: Crooks “Armed and Don’t Give a Darn About Gun Control”

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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 ...
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Soros-Funded Sunlight Foundation Slings Mud, Hits Soros-Funded Center for American Progress

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On February 18, Sunlight's Lindsay Young reported that Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA) disclosures show that The National Center for Public Policy Research participated in luncheon briefings sponsored by the Gaddafi Charitable and Development Foundation in 2009. FARA records actually ...
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ObamaCare: Where’s The Lefty Outrage? Part II

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As noted in a previous blog post, most left-wing pundits were silent when Republican Gov. Bob McDonnell of Virginia succeeded in getting part-time state workers limited to 29 hours per week so as to avoid giving them health insurance as ...
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Project 21’s Swimp: Gun Control Helps Crooks, Hurt Blacks

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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 ...
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Project 21’s Green: Old Media is the New Black for Obama

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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 ...
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Can We Be REALLY Hard-Headed About Preschool?

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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 ...
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