Category: Project 21 Press Releases
Black Activists: Tea Party Not Responsible for Credit Downgrade
Washington, D.C. - Black activists with the Project 21 black leadership network are rebutting assertions made by rabid supporters of President Barack Obama that the recent downgrade of the nation's credit rating is the fault of the tea party movement ...
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Black Activists Slam Rep. Wasserman Schultz’s Targeted Attack on Black Colleague
Washington, D.C. - Black activists with the Project 21 leadership network are once again calling out Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL). This time, Wasserman Schultz unaccountably targeted a black colleague, Representative Allen West (R-FL), for specific criticism during the debt ...
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Black Americans Comment on Debt Negotiations
Washington, D.C. - Black activists with the Project 21 leadership network are speaking out about the current deadlock in negotiations related to the debt ceiling and spending cuts currently ongoing between congressional leaders and the Obama Administration. "Don't be fooled ...
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Black Activists “Deeply Disappointed” in President Clinton’s “Disingenuous” Racial Attack on Ballot Security Measures
Protecting Against Vote Suppression Not Akin to Segregation Washington, D.C. - Black activists with the Project 21 leadership network are disappointed that former president Bill Clinton chose to become the latest liberal luminary to sully his credibility by likening state-level ...
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Senators Seek to Stymie Polling Place Protections
Black Activists Oppose Making Vote Suppression Easier Washington, D.C. - An effort by 16 U.S. Senators that may compromise state-level photo ID requirements enacted to protect the integrity of the voting process is being protested by leaders of the Project ...
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Black Veterans Critical of Obama’s Afghanistan Plans
Washington, D.C. - Veterans affiliated with the Project 21 black leadership network are critical of the speech by President Obama last night in which he laid out plans to begin withdrawing substantial American military forces from Afghanistan. "It is unfortunate ...
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Black Activists Criticize Jesse Jackson on Voting Rights
Controversial Reverend Attacks Election Day Photo ID Requirements as Racist Conspiracy Washington, D.C. - Spokesmen for the Project 21 black leadership network are critical of the Reverend Jesse Jackson's call for federal intervention against state-level efforts to protect voting integrity, ...
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“Juneteenth” Emancipation Observance Marks Revival of Virtues and Values
Juneteenth Holiday Called a "Celebration of American Freedom" Washington, D.C. - Black conservatives with the Project 21 leadership network urge people to use this year's observance of "Juneteenth" to restore the values and virtues of self-improvement, self-reliance and educational empowerment ...
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Administration Energy Policy Linked to Black Jobless Rate
Washington, D.C. - As President Obama meets today in North Carolina with his Council on Jobs and Competitiveness and tours a local "green economy" company, members of the black leadership network Project 21 are reminding him that the black unemployment ...
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Despite Congressional Leader’s Claim, Requiring an ID to Vote is Nothing Like Forced Segregation
America Remembers Jim Crow, and Ballot Security is No Jim Crow Washington, D.C. - Efforts to protect voting integrity are not "literally" equivalent to Jim Crow segregation laws, and claims that they are by a member of the Congressional leadership ...
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