Category: Project 21 Press Releases
Jesse Jackson Claims Obama Deserves “Big Hand” for Being “Food Stamp President”; Project 21 Members Disagree
Washington, D.C. - Black conservatives with the Project 21 leadership network are condemning the welfare state cheerleading of Jesse Jackson, who claimed President Obama deserves a "big hand" and "honor" for being a "food stamp president." Project 21 members also ...
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Supreme Court to Reconsider Affirmative Action in Higher Education
Washington, D.C. - A case challenging the use of racial preferences in public college and university admissions was accepted today by the U.S. Supreme Court. Project 21, the black leadership network, joined a legal brief that urged the Court to ...
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Black Conservatives Comment on Obama State of the Union Address
Washington, D.C. - Black conservatives affiliated with the Project 21 leadership network are unimpressed with President Barack Obama's progress during his three years in office. They say Obama's State of the Union address tonight was long on rhetoric and short ...
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Black Conservatives Discuss Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Washington, D.C. - As the nation prepares to observe the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in conjunction with the national holiday in his honor, black conservatives affiliated with the Project 21 leadership network are speaking out about how ...
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Government ID Needed to Buy Drain Cleaner in Illinois, But Not to Vote
Black Conservative Sees Hypocrisy in Legislative Opposition to Similar Safeguards for Electoral Process Washington, D.C. - Project 21 spokesman Stacy Swimp is criticizing Illinois lawmakers for requiring people who purchase caustic substances such as drain cleaner to present government-issued ID ...
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Founding Member of Project 21 Black Conservative Group Calls Out New Black Panthers
Calls Bounty for Zimmerman "Outrageous" and "Lawless" Washington, D.C. - Legal commentator Horace Cooper, a founding member of the African-American leadership group Project 21, is criticizing the New Black Panthers' call for a ransom on George Zimmerman in the wake ...
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Black Conservatives Reject Jesse Jackson’s Comparison of Occupy Wall Street Efforts to Civil Rights Movement
Washington, D.C. - Members of the Project 21 black leadership network are criticizing Jesse Jackson for comparing increasingly violent Occupy Wall Street events to the civil rights movement. Project 21's black conservatives say the Tea Party movement more closely resembles ...
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Black Conservatives Say Attorney General Holder’s Tuesday Night Speech at LBJ Library Was Partisan and Racialist
"Eric Holder is Putting the Quality of our Electoral Process at Risk" and "the Real Racists... Claim Enforcing Voting ID Laws Hurts Minorities" Say Project 21 Spokesmen Voter ID "Protects the Voices of Those who Deserve to be Heard" Washington, ...
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Black Conservatives Critical of NAACP on Eve of Saturday’s NAACP New York “Mobilization”
NAACP Marches to Oppose Voter IDs, Purging Voter Lists of Dead or Unqualified Voters and the Enforcement of Laws Prohibiting Felons from Voting NAACP Position "Demeans Blacks" Say Project 21 Spokesmen: "Does the NAACP Believe Blacks are Too Lazy, Ignorant ...
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Federal Judge’s Ruling is Wrong, Says Scholar: The Three Dozen States Considering Drug Tests for Welfare Recipients Can Do So Under the Law and U.S. Constitution
What's More, Says Horace Cooper, Such Drug Tests Benefit Children and are Sound Public Policy Washington, D.C. - Contrary to a federal court ruling, the Constitution does not prohibit states from testing welfare recipients for drug use, says a new ...
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