Project 21: Press Releases

Killings of Police Officers; 'Community v. Police' Debate; Fourth Verdict in Freddie Gray Trial Expected July 18 Among Available Topics Washington, D.C. - Black conservatives affiliated with the Project 21 national leadership group are available for interviews and commentary on breaking news events, including but not limited to: the murder of police officers in Baton Rouge on July 17; the expected July 18 verdict in the trial of Baltimore Police Lt. Brian Rice in the fourth Freddie Gray trial; the ongoing conversation about law enforcement's treatment of and relationship with the black community; and more. Members available for interviews include, ...

Department of Justice Report, "Investigation of the Baltimore City Police Department," Comes on Heels of Failed Prosecution of Six Baltimore Police Officers in Freddie Gray Case 163-Page Report Was Highly Critical of Baltimore City Police Department Hicks Says DOJ Report Contains "Classic Leftist Class/Race Theory," Calls it Insulting to the Baltimore City Police Department Hicks Says, "I Smell Another Federal Consent Decree That Will Federalize Baltimore's Struggling Law Enforcement Officers... on the Heels of an Unprecedented National War on Cops -- and Cop-Killing at Levels the Nation Has Not Seen Before." Los Angeles, CA / Washington, D.C. - Project 21's ...

"Abusing her power in this way makes her unfit to continue in this office" "If Mosby had a single shred of dignity she would resign her post immediately" "Her decision to unleash a prosecution on six individuals without evidence of criminal wrongdoing is as wrong as the inflammatory prosecutorial tactics of Michael Nifong" "Trials are not... tools to quell a restless crowd" "Perhaps Mosby would be better suited to criminal defense law" "There is no excuse for the kind of rhetoric that Prosecutor Mosby has employed" "Stunning ignorance and incompetence" "Mosby gave encouragement to the street thugs who now literally ...

Washington, D.C. - Leaders of the Project 21 black leadership network are expressing disappointment over the decision handed down this morning by the U.S. Supreme Court in Fisher v. University of Texas, a key affirmative action case. The high court ruled that the race-conscious admissions program at the time of Abigail Fisher's application to the University of Texas is lawful under the Equal Protection Clause. With the Pacific Legal Foundation and others, Project 21 submitted an amicus brief to the Supreme Court in the case in September, and has twice before submitted friend of the court briefs in Fisher (here ...

Project 21's Nadra "Cap Black" Enzi Says He'd Gladly Join His Hero Rep. John Lewis in Sit-In to Protect Inner City Residents from Crime Reminds Congressman of the Role Armed Volunteers Played in Protecting Non-Violent Civil Rights Pioneers Like Himself Washington, D.C. - Project 21 member and New Orleans anti-crime activist Nadra "Cap Black" Enzi has the following statement about the "sit-in" of the U.S. House of Representatives promoting gun control led by Rep. John Lewis (D-GA): U.S. Congressman John Lewis is one of the people responsible for my enjoying full citizenship as a black Southern member of Generation X ...

Washington, D.C. - Los Angeles political activist and longtime Project 21 member Joe Hicks is joining other colleagues in the Project 21 black leadership network who have expressed disappointment over the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Fisher v. University of Texas, a key affirmative action case, earlier today. The high court ruled in favor of race-conscious university admissions. With the Pacific Legal Foundation and others, Project 21 submitted an amicus brief to the Supreme Court in the case in September, and has twice before submitted friend of the court briefs in Fisher (here and here). "Lacking the towering presence of ...

Prosecutor Marilyn Mosby Criticized Harshly for Acting "More Like an Activist Than an Advocate for Justice" "Mosby Has Mishandled This Entire Affair and Should Admit That and End It Now" "The Judge Should Throw Out All of the Remaining Charges Against the Three Officers Who Nervously Await Their Fate" "The Rush to Judgment Has Been Overruled by Common Sense" Washington, D.C. - Leaders of the Project 21 black leadership network are applauding the acquittal of Baltimore Police Officer Caesar R. Goodson Jr. in the third trial in the infamous "Freddie Gray" case that sparked extensive riots in Baltimore in 2015 ...

Washington, D.C. - Project 21 member and Indiana Tea Party organizer Emery McClendon has the following statement about President Obama's loss in a critical immigration case that was handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court today: As one who followed the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents, or DACA, case closely, and a person that participated in a press conference outside of the U.S. Supreme Court on the day of the oral arguments, I am happy for this outcome. It would have been better if they had agreed with the lower court, but the matter should ...

Project 21 Joins Those Calling for the Appreciation of and Continued Advancement of Freedom Obama White House Strangely Silent for Eighth Year, Despite Calls that it Issue Some Form of a Commemorative Proclamation for Juneteenth, Joining 43 States and the Bush White House Washington, D.C. - Sunday, June 19, marks "Juneteenth," the anniversary of the arrival of Union soldiers in Galveston, Texas on June 19, 1865, who carried with them the news that the Civil War was over and that slavery had been abolished by President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation two-and-a-half years earlier. According to the National Juneteenth Observance Foundation, ...

Washington, D.C. - Members of the Project 21 national leadership network are commenting on the History Channel's multi-day reboot of the epic miniseries "Roots," based on a novel by Alex Haley, that began Memorial Day. The original 1977 broadcast of "Roots" was a phenomenon. At least 130 million Americans watched at least part of the original broadcast, at a time when the national population was just 220 million. Even more impressively, seven of its eight episodes were among the top ten TV broadcasts of all time up until then. Many Project 21 members and their colleagues were among them. "'Roots' ...

"Attaching this insanity to the legacy of civil rights… trivializes everything the brave men and women experienced and sacrificed in the pursuit of social, economic and legal equality…" "Civil rights champions were not spat upon, beaten with police batons and sometimes murdered for the right of men to go to the same restroom with little girls…" "Why is there such a rush to strip away the innocence of American children?" "As a Christian conservative, Black clergyman, I am deeply offended…" "The idea that a mentally ill person should assume the mantle of civil rights so hard-fought and won by black ...

Washington, D.C. - The following is a statement by Project 21 founding member Council Nedd II on the ambush attack on Harris County Deputy Constable Alden Clopton late last night: I am appalled at the senseless willingness to harm and to risk loss of life. I am especially appalled when a sworn peace officer is wantonly shot in the back, for no other reason than wanting to serve his community. It's bad enough when officers are killed or injured responding to the commission of a crime or during an investigation, but to be shot in the back as Alden Clopton ...

Washington, D.C. - Spokesmen for the national black leadership group Project 21 are critical of WTAE-TV in Pittsburgh for firing anchor Wendy Bell for comments about a March 9 multiple murder in the Pittsburgh suburb of Wilkinsburg. Bell wrote, in part: ...There's no nice words to write when a coward holding an AK-47 hoses down a family and their friends sharing laughs and a mild evening on a back porch in Wilkinsburg. There's no kind words when 6 people are murdered. When their children have to hide for cover and then emerge from the frightened shadows to find their mother's ...

"Communism has never worked, can never work and... must be challenged" "Why is the President cozying up to killers?" "This president... has pole-vaulted over America's territory of Puerto Rico, which is dying on the economic vine, to play kissy-face with the Castros" "Cuba gets legitimacy and currency while America gets empty promises" "Castro turned on us; not us on them" "Mr. Obama should think before he acts" "Many members of the Obama Administration are making excuses for this bastion of institutional racism" Washington, D.C. - Members of the Project 21 black leadership network are issuing strong statements of condemnation about ...

Washington, D.C. - The following is a statement by Project 21 Co-Chairman Horace Cooper on President Obama's nomination of a candidate to fill the vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court: The White House believes it can hide behind the notion that the U.S. Senate should "do its duty" and act on his nominee. Perhaps if the President had done his duty to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States," he would have a case. Having undermined and disregarded the Constitution (including holding the dubious distinction of being the modern President with the most unanimous losses before the ...

Black Lawmakers Group May Seek Sanction of Congressman for Ruing High Abortion Rate in Black Community Lawmaker Sean Duffy's Remarks Expressing Concern About Lives of Black Babies Called "Insensitive" and "Disgusting" by CBC Members Washington, D.C. - Members of the Project 21 black leadership network are rising to the defense of Wisconsin Republican Congressman Sean Duffy, who is under fire from the Congressional Black Caucus for remarks on the House floor expressing concern about the high abortion rate in the black community. As reported by The Hill, this is what Duffy said: Duffy during a House floor speech cited statistics ...

Puffy, Partisan Speech Further Mires President's Lamentable Legacy "You Can't Put Enough Lipstick on This Pig of His to Make It Look Pretty" Washington, D.C. - Members of the Project 21 black leadership network are commenting on - and available for interviews about - President Barack Obama's final State of the Union Address. While starting out talking about alleged areas for potential bipartisan accomplishment, the agenda President Obama quickly pivoted to and championed throughout the rest of his speech to Congress encompassed a big-government agenda he has always sought to enact with or without the support of elected lawmakers - ...

Washington, D.C. - Project 21 founding member Bishop Council Nedd II, rector of St. Alban's Anglican Church in Pine Grove Mills, PA, will be sworn in as a Pennsylvania State Constable on January 4. "I'm excited about this new endeavor," says Bishop Nedd. "I come from a family of law enforcement officers, so law enforcement is a vocation that has always been near and dear to my heart. However, my father, uncles and brother never wanted me to go into the family business. They wanted me to become an attorney. I've always tried to set my own path, so I ...

Ending Affirmative Action is Important Because It Does Four Negative Things, Says Derryck Green There is Still a Very Real Concern About Academic Mismatches, Says Bishop Council Nedd II Washington, D.C. - Leaders of the Project 21 black leadership network are commenting on today's oral arguments in the U.S. Supreme Court over Fisher v. University of Texas, a key affirmative action case. With the Pacific Legal Foundation and others, Project 21 submitted in September an amicus brief to the Supreme Court in the case, and has twice before submitted friend of the court briefs in Fisher (here and here). It's ...

Call Speech "Least Inspiring Presidential Speech Ever," Say President Failed to Instill Confidence in Already-Suspect Policy "Passion is No Excuse for a Failure of Leadership" Washington, D.C. - Members of the Project 21 black leadership network are commenting on and available for interviews about President Barack Obama's address to the nation on terrorism and his agenda for dealing with this threat to American citizens and other western nations. "President Obama gave what might have been the least inspiring presidential speech ever," said Project 21's Council Nedd, an Anglican bishop with strong ties in the Middle East who is also an ...