Tag: Press Release
Black Judges and Blackface: Liberals Playing Race Card Riles Black Leadership Coalition – November 1999
A politician in blackface and the liberal record of a black judge dominate politics in Missouri and raise the ugly and divisive specter of racial politics nationwide. Project 21 members deplore the use of the "race card" and the threat ...
NAACP Baseball Boycott Bites Blacks; Boycott of Detroit Tigers Owner Could Hurt More Than Help
The latest boycott called by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) - this time against Little Caesar's pizza and the other businesses of Detroit Tigers baseball team owner Mike Illitch - highlights the group's growing reliance ...
Linking Abortion to Crime Could Label Unborn Black Americans as Crooks
A new study proposing that legalized abortions have caused a reduction in crime is causing great concern among members of the African-American leadership network Project 21, many of whom fear such ideas could be used to resurrect racist population control ...
Administration, Democratic Party Should Cooperate in Investigation of Interior Department Officials, Says Group
Recent newspaper reports in the Washington Post, Washington Times and elsewhere about overt, illegal partisan political activity at the U.S. Department of the Interior require a full investigation, says The National Center for Public Policy Research. News reports indicate that ...
Raising SUV Fuel Economy Standards Would Mean More Traffic Fatalities
Effort to Save Fuel Linked to 46,000 Auto Deaths Since 1975 Recent efforts to raise fuel efficiency standards, including those for light trucks like sports utility vehicles and mini-vans, would increase traffic fatalities, according to a new paper released by ...
Black Investing Up, Survey Says Blacks Consider Saving to be #1 Priority – June 1999
Findings of a recent study show black Americans are planning to start investing at higher rates than whites. Members of the African-American leadership network Project 21 are excited at future prospects of wealth and prosperity this will create for the ...
Break the Chains of Big Government: African-American Leadership Network Hopes Black Holiday of Juneteenth Will Promote Independence – June 1999
When "Juneteenth" is observed on June 19, the members of the African-American leadership network Project 21 ask African-Americans everywhere to use the celebration of education, self-development and respect to examine and reassess the reliance of many in the black community ...
Earth Day No Holiday for Black Americans – April 1999
Black Leadership Network Faults Anti-Minority Environment Policies Members of the African-American leadership network Project 21 find fault with the beliefs and goals of radical environmentalists who are celebrating Earth Day on April 22. These activists regularly promote drastic regulations that ...
Three R’s Take a Back Seat to the Final Four: Suspension of NCAA Academic Standards Could Hurt Student Athletes
Members of the African-American leadership network Project 21 call Judge Ronald L. Buckwalter's March ruling overturning the NCAA's minimum acadmic standards for freshmen athletes a fit of "March Madness" that will devastate student athletics for years to come. Project 21 ...
Black Organization Decries Unfair Maryland Taxation
Death Tax and Proposed Cigarette Tax Unfair to Low-Income and Minority Citizens Two taxes in the state of Maryland - inheritance taxes and a proposed increase in the cigarette tax - are criticized by members of the African-American leadership network ...
