Category: Project 21 Press Releases
Obama’s Amnesty Order Harms Jobs, Schools, Health and Simple Fairness, Black Activists Say
Washington, D.C. - Activists with the Project 21 black leadership network are critical of just-announced executive action by President Barack Obama to grant amnesty to non-citizens illegally in the United States. "What President Obama did is reward those who broke ...
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Black Legal Experts Support Alabama Lawmakers Over Special Interests in Supreme Court Redistricting Case
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
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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“Who Are the Racists: Liberals or Conservatives?”; Project 21’s Derryck Green’s First Lecture as new Faculty Member of Prager University Addresses Myth of Conservative Racism
Black Scholar Deconstructs Liberal Myths About Affirmative Action, Voter ID Washington, D.C. - Derryck Green, a member of the Project 21 black leadership network, is the newest member of the faculty of Prager University, an "online resource promoting knowledge and ...
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Statement by Project 21’s Archbishop Council Nedd II on Jesse Jackson’s Attempt to Inject Race Into Ebola Discussion
Calls on Jesse Jackson to Retire from Public Life "In 2009, I was one of the first people in America to suffer from H1N1 swine flu... My doctor initially refused to believe I had swine flu because no one else ...
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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
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
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
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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Throughout U.S. History, Immigration Surges Have Harmed Black Workers
Washington, D.C. - Surges in immigration have harmed black workers throughout U.S. history. Evidence shows that eras of high black employment and economic mobility directly correspond with periods of reduced immigration. Should President Obama legalize many or all of the ...
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Project 21 Co-Chairman Horace Cooper Calls Out Washington Post Columnist for Attacks on St. Louis County Grand Jury
Cooper Says the Grand Jury Process Plays a Critical Role in the American Legal System Washington, D.C. - In Friday's Washington Post, columnist Dana Milbank claimed the St. Louis grand jury reviewing evidence in the Michael Brown shooting is perpetuating ...
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