Category: Legal Reform

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Black Activists Comment on Ferguson Grand Jury Decision

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Ferguson, MO / Washington, D.C. - After a grand jury chose not to indict Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death last August of local resident Michael Brown, members of the Project 21 black leadership network are speaking ...
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Black Legal Experts Support Alabama Lawmakers Over Special Interests in Supreme Court Redistricting Case

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U.S. Supreme Court Urged to Curtail Use of Race in Redistricting Old Law Demanding Racial Considerations Not a Help to Minority Voters Washington, D.C. - At the U.S. Supreme Court today, legal experts with the Project 21 black leadership network ...
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Black Activists Comment on Washington Post Report that Federal Civil Rights Charges Will Not Be Filed Against Darren Wilson in Death of Michael Brown

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Washington, D.C. - Activists with the Project 21 black leadership network say a new Washington Post report that the Eric Holder-led Department of Justice will not charge Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson with federal civil rights charges in the shooting ...
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In Three Segments, Watch a Black Legal Eagle Demolish Voter ID Critics

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Against vociferous critics and a skeptical host, Project 21’s Horace Cooper soundly and succinctly justified the need for polling place protections against voter fraud and dispatched the various alarmist attacks on this commonsense safeguard to protect American democracy. On Al ...
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No Civil Rights Charges Against George Zimmerman in Trayvon Martin Death Because “There Isn’t a Case, and There Never Was,” Says Project 21’s Horace Cooper

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DOJ's George Zimmerman Intervention Exposes Politicized Obama Justice Department Former Head of Zimmerman Investigation on Rumored Short List to Replace Eric Holder Washington, D.C. - Responding to a report that the U.S. Department of Justice will not file civil rights ...
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U.S. Supreme Court Meets Today to Decide Whether to Accept Fair Housing Act Case

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Does the Fair Housing Act Merely Require that People Be Treated Equally Regardless of Race, or Does it Require Equal Outcomes? Washington, D.C. - Washington, DC - U.S. Supreme Court justices meet today to discuss which cases they will hear ...
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Resignation of Attorney General Eric Holder Welcomed

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Attorney General "Set Back Race Relations, Showed Disrespect for the Rule of Law and Undermined Basic Constitutional Principles," Says Project 21's Horace Cooper "With Appropriate New Leadership, the Justice Department Can Return to its Proper Role as a Steward of ...
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Obama Administration Probe of Ferguson Police Called “Well Past a Rush to Judgment”

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DOJ May Be Signaling It Does Not Expect an Indictment in Michael Brown Shooting Death Washington, D.C. - Activists with the Project 21 black leadership network are questioning Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to mount a federal investigation of the ...
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Legal Scholar Horace Cooper Slams Missouri Governor’s Rush to Justice in Michael Brown Shooting Death

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"A Rush to Judgment... Demeans the Justice System and the Rule of Law" Washington, D.C. / Ferguson, MO - Legal scholar Horace Cooper of the Project 21 black leadership network is condemning a statement by Missouri Governor Jay Nixon that ...
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Federal Appeals Court Asked to Rehear Landmark Race Preferences Case

Federal Appeals Court Asked to Rehear Landmark Race Preferences Case

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Fifth Circuit Didn't Follow U.S. Supreme Court Instructions, Black Activists Say: The Judges Didn't Do Their Job "Racial preferences are a narcotic for the nation's liberal education elites, and like a drug addiction, must be dealt with..." Washington, D.C. - ...
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