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The Coming War on Menthol Cigarettes, by Horace Cooper

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Last year, not long after the Food and Drug Administration got legislative authority to regulate tobacco, "flavored" cigarettes were banned — on behalf of the children. This was largely a publicity stunt since Twista Lime, Kauai Kolada and other flavored ...
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Obama is Not Heeding to the Lesson of Wisconsin, by Deneen Borelli

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President Barack Obama is surrounded by a broad and diverse array of challenges.  From slow economic growth and high unemployment to emerging international crises, Obama faces mounting pressure to show leadership. But all of these weighty national and international burdens ...
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What Can the Tea Party Do to Attract Minorities? by Emery McClendon

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As a tea party organizer and black man, I am often asked how a movement with the critical mission of saving and restoring our republic can attract minorities currently weak in numbers in tea party ranks. The mainstream media and ...
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Obama's Defense of Gay Marriage Over Rule of Law Challenged by Black Conservatives

Obama’s Defense of Gay Marriage Over Rule of Law Challenged by Black Conservatives

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Washington, D.C. – Black conservatives with the Project 21 leadership network say President Obama's decision that the executive branch will no longer defend the Defense of Marriage Act because of its alleged unconstitutionality is unconstitutional in itself — and point ...
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Jesse Jackson "Out of Line" Comparing Madison, Columbus to Cairo

Jesse Jackson “Out of Line” Comparing Madison, Columbus to Cairo

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Washington, D.C. – Jesse Jackson has reappeared, surfacing at rallies in Madison, Wisconsin and Columbus, Ohio in support of public employees attacking efforts to reform some collective bargaining practices in order to close deficits threatening state governments with bankruptcy. Project ...
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Blacks’ Role in the U.S. Economy, by B.B. Robinson, Ph.D.

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Some black women are not very concerned about the fact that 72 percent of black babies born in 2008 were born out of wedlock. These women take an analytical approach to relationships and don't always see a valid reason to ...
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Black Conservatives Condemn Left-Wing Blogger's Racial Attack on Herman Cain

Black Conservatives Condemn Left-Wing Blogger’s Racial Attack on Herman Cain

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Washington, D.C. – Members of the Project 21 black leadership network are condemning a major left-wing web site's blistering racial attack on black conservative Herman Cain, and once again is asking why the liberal civil rights establishment still refuses to ...
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Obama Cuts Heating Aid to Poor While Raising Energy Prices

Obama Cuts Heating Aid to Poor While Raising Energy Prices

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Black Activist Speaks Out Against Agenda that Assures Suffering Washington, D.C. – The Obama Administration proposed today that the federal government cut home heating assistance in half, even as the Administration continues to fight for controversial programs that will raise ...
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Civil Rights Leaders Urged to Denounce Leftist Calls for Violence Against Black Supreme Court Justice

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Washington, D.C. – Project 21 Fellow Deneen Borelli is urging liberal civil right leaders to denounce violent, racist rhetoric against black Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas with the same vigor with which they sought out alleged racial extremism within the ...
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Trust for Us, by B.B. Robinson

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There is a lot of discussion of the black community's problems: poverty, crime, high incarceration rates and high unemployment. But there isn't much discussion of "trust." An absence of focus on the trust deficit in the black community obscures an ...
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