Category: Project 21 Press Releases
Black Activists Condemn NAACP Resolution Against Tea Party Movement
Washington, DC – As the NAACP plans to use their group's prestige to bash the tea party movement, members of the Project 21 black leadership network are urging delegates at the NAACP's national convention not to turn the NAACP into ...
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Black Activists Compare Obama’s Arizona Lawsuit to Nixon’s “Southern Strategy”
Washington, D.C. — Lawyers for the Obama Administration recently filed a lawsuit to prohibit the enforcement of Arizona's new immigration law. In its filing, the federal government says it is currently targeting "dangerous aliens" and that Arizona's attempt to enforce ...
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Juneteenth Civil Rights Holiday Observed While Future Freedom Remains At Risk
Washington, D.C. — On the occasion of “Juneteenth” — the oldest and most recognized annual commemoration of the end of slavery in the United States — members of the Project 21 black leadership network assert the civil rights-themed holiday should ...
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Black Activists Comment on Kagan Nomination to U.S. Supreme Court
Washington, DC - Members of the Project 21 black leadership network are speaking out about President Barack Obama's nomination of Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the U.S. Supreme Court. Mychal Massie: "After all of the division he has foisted upon ...
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Congressman Should Know Better than to Compare Tea Party Attendees to Klansmen, Black Leader Says
Washington, D.C.: Deneen Borelli, full-time fellow with the Project 21 black leadership network and frequent speaker at tea party rallies, says Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN)'s recent comparison of tea party rally participants to members of the Ku Klux Klan is ...
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Statement of Black Conservative Project 21 Members on Signing of Health Care Legislation and on Accusations of Racism Against Tea Party Activists
Washington, D.C.: - The following are comments by members of the Project 21 black conservative leadership network on the signing of health care legislation by President Obama yesterday and on continuing accusations of racism by Tea Party activists protesting the ...
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Where Is the Outrage When Black Conservative Tea Party Activists Are Called the N-Word?
Washington, D.C.: Black conservatives opposed to government-run health care routinely are called the "n-word" and worse -- by liberals, says Deneen Borelli, full-time Fellow with the Project 21 black leadership network. To black lawmakers allegedly receiving the same treatment, Borelli ...
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What is a “Black Agenda”?
Washington, D.C.: Mychal Massie, chairman of the Project 21 black leadership network, is critical of the premise of talk show host Tavis Smiley's upcoming March 20 conference that seeks to set a "black agenda" for America. "What is a black ...
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Black Leader Speaks Out Against Obama Recommending Reconciliation to Pass Government-Run Health Care
Washington, D.C.: Mychal Massie, chairman of the Project 21 black leadership network, is condemning President Barack Obama for urging Senate leaders to employ controversial reconciliation rules to force a government takeover of health care. "The people have spoken, and they ...
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Rangel’s Removal from Ways and Means Chairmanship Sparks Black Conservative Response
Washington, D.C.: Members of the Project 21 black leadership network are commenting on the announcement by Representative Charles Rangel (D-NY) that he will at least temporarily step down from his chairmanship of the House Ways and Means Committee. Bishop Council ...
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