Category: Project 21 New Visions

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Learn from the NFL: The Free Market Works, by Hughey Newsome

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September is usually exciting for the National Football League, its players and its fans. It's the start of the new season. Old favorites are back on the gridiron and new players will be tested. Everyone wonders if this season will ...
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Remove the Stigma of Bad Black Behavior that Hurts our Race, by Derryck Green

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Rather than waiting until specifics about the Michael Brown case are known — such as autopsy results, detailed officer reports, toxicology or other details regarding his death — some Ferguson residents, Brown supporters and various hangers-on decided to act. Learning ...
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It’s Time to Mend the Ties Between Police and the Black Community, by Lawrence Bill Jones III

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Ask young boys what they want to be when they grow up, and the answer might be "police officer." It's common to want to protect the innocent, have authority and be the hero. For me, it wasn't any different. I wanted ...
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Why Does the NAACP Fight for Race- and Sex-Based Baby-Killing in Arizona? by Derryck Green

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It's as if the NAACP hasn't done enough to dishonor its legacy and completely ruin its reputation as a civil rights organization. Grasping for political relevancy, the so-called civil rights group's Arizona chapter, with the help of the ACLU, is ...
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The Immigration Problem: What Are The Health Risks? by Elaina F. George, MD

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Troubling facts concerning health risks related to the wave of illegal immigrants who are crossing our southern border are coming to light despite efforts by the government to keep Americans in the dark. The usual tactics of crying racism and ...
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Why the Rush to Judgment in Ferguson? by Joe R. Hicks

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Eighteen year-old Michael Brown was finally laid to rest, but issues surrounding this tragic killing have not been.  The facts surrounding the police shooting of the teenager remain largely unknown, with a grand jury hearing testimony and at least three ...
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Let’s Unite and Put ISIS to Flight, by Archbishop Council Nedd II

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Having studied and taught history, I tend to look at things with a slightly longer view and in a broader context than most people. Most people tend to view the political world map as always having looked the way it ...
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A Firewall is Needed Against Militant Islam, by Archbishop Council Nedd II

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What's a firewall? It's an impenetrable barrier meant to stop an undesirable action. In politics, consider the example of the 1988 United States presidential race.  After several embarrassing defeats in early primaries, then-Vice President George H.W. Bush's campaign manager announced ...
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An Upside to Focusing on Race, by Demetrius Minor

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Because of the hypersensitivity to which our world has succumbed, race is a frightening or taboo subject for many. Nonetheless, we should all talk about it. It's really hard to label anyone an expert on race. Many of us have ...
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Vets Deserve Better Care, and Obama Knows It (Yet Fails to Provide It), by Kevin L. Martin

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There are plenty of veterans such as myself who see President Obama's public reaction to the scandal at the Department of Veterans Affairs as both political theater and a desperate attempt to cover his posterior. First of all, his reaction ...
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