Tag: Press Release

Jesse Jackson Oversimplifies History

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Conservative African-Americans affiliated with the Project 21 leadership network are appalled by comments made by the Reverend Jesse Jackson on January 15 claiming that early non-black Americans came to this country solely to exploit minorities. Some Project 21 members fear ...
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Project 21 Press Release: Black Conservatives Support Bush Stand on Affirmative Action Challenge – January 2003

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Black Conservatives Support Bush Stand on Affirmative Action Challenge African-American conservatives from the Project 21 leadership network applaud President George W. Bush for standing firm in his commitment to a colorblind America by authorizing the U.S. Department of Justice to ...
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Detroit Project is Hypocritical, Muddleheaded

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Statement of National Center for Public Policy Research President Amy Ridenour on the anti-SUV ads being run by the Detroit Project: "The Detroit Project, which currently is running TV ads portraying owners of SUVs as supporters of terrorism, is hypocritical ...
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Project 21 Press Release: Project 21 Member to Discuss Slave Reparations on ABC News “Nightline” Program

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The African-American leadership network Project 21 is asking the Virginia State Bar to investigate NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc president and director-counsel Elaine R. Jones. "Obstructionism is the order of the day in the Senate," said Project 21 ...
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Black Conservatives Available for Comment on California Race Initiative

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Members of the African-American leadership network Project 21 are available for comment on Proposition 54 - the "Racial Privacy Initiative" - that will be decided by California voters on October 7. Proposition 54 would prohibit California state agencies from classifying ...
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Black Group Opposes Civil Rights Commission Environmental Justice Report

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Commissioners of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights will meet in Albuquerque, New Mexico on October 17, 2003 to vote on the endorsement of a staff report that proposes changes to the federal government's "environmental justice" policy. Members of the ...
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Conservative African-American Group Project 21 Addresses Lott-Thurmond Controversy

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Members of the conservative African-American leadership network Project 21 are dismayed by recent remarks by incoming Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-MS). At a December 5 100th birthday celebration for retiring Senator Strom Thurmond (R-SC), Lott said: "I want to ...
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Project 21 Press Release: Conservative African-American Group Project 21 Addresses Lott-Thurmond Controversy – December 2002

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Members of the conservative African-American leadership network Project 21 are dismayed by recent remarks by incoming Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-MS). At a December 5 100th birthday celebration for retiring Senator Strom Thurmond (R-SC), Lott said: "I want to ...
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Senator Tom Daschle Should Praise, Not Attack, Talk Radio Hosts and America’s Diverse Media

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Responding to Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle's November 20 statements claiming "Rush Limbaugh and all of the Rush Limbaugh wannabees" are responsible for violence and threats of violence, Amy Ridenour, President of The National Center for Public Policy Research in ...
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New Study Says Minorities and Poor Harmed by Anti-Sprawl Policies

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Policies to combat sprawl penalize minorities, the poor, urban families and the young, says a new econometrics report being released at a November 21 Washington policy conference by the Center for Environmental Justice of The National Center for Public Policy ...
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