Category: Project 21 Press Releases

Black Leader Calls for Special Counsel to Investigate Possible Voting Rights Corruption at Justice Department

Black Leader Calls for Special Counsel to Investigate Possible Voting Rights Corruption at Justice Department

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Washington, DC - In light of a Washington Times report today that political appointees at the U.S. Department of Justice forced career prosecutors to drop and/or reduce charges against men observed intimidating Philadelphia voters last election day, Project 21 Chairman ...
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Black Leader Urges Senate Scrutiny for Sotomayor Supreme Court Nomination; No Rubber Stamp for Controversial Nominee

Black Leader Urges Senate Scrutiny for Sotomayor Supreme Court Nomination; No Rubber Stamp for Controversial Nominee

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Washington, D.C. - With President Obama's nomination of U.S. Circuit Court judge Sonia Sotomayor to the vacancy being created by U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter's impending retirement, Mychal Massie, chairman of the Project 21 black leadership network, is urging ...
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Black Activists Ask U.S. Supreme Court to Invalidate Outdated Section of Voting Rights Act

Black Activists Ask U.S. Supreme Court to Invalidate Outdated Section of Voting Rights Act

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Washington, DC - As the U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments today in the voting rights case Northwest Austin Municipal Utility District Number One v. Holder, the Project 21 black leadership network is joining with other organizations to ask that this ...
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Conservative Black Group Challenges Liberal Urban League's "State of Black America 2009" Report

Conservative Black Group Challenges Liberal Urban League’s “State of Black America 2009” Report

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Washington, DC - This year’s edition of the liberal National Urban League's annual State of Black America report fails to effectively challenge the Obama Administration, is unnecessarily dreary and makes recommendations that would be harmful, say members of the conservative ...
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Supreme Court Decision Against Racial Gerrymandering Hailed

Supreme Court Decision Against Racial Gerrymandering Hailed

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Washington, D.C. - Project 21 Chairman Mychal Massie today hailed a new U.S. Supreme Court decision prohibiting the use of the Voting Rights Act to supercede other laws to create predominantly black voting districts, saying the decision is a new ...
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Protest of New York Post's Chimp Cartoon is an Attack on Rupert Murdoch, Black Activist Says

Protest of New York Post’s Chimp Cartoon is an Attack on Rupert Murdoch, Black Activist Says

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Washington, D.C. - Three apologies were offered by New York Post editors and its owner, Rupert Murdoch, for an editorial cartoon said to compare President Barack Obama to a chimpanzee.  None of these apologies were accepted.  Project 21 Chairman Mychal ...
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Congressman's Race-Baiting on Stimulus Attacked; It’s Not “Racist” to Refuse Stimulus Money, Black Activists Say

Congressman’s Race-Baiting on Stimulus Attacked; It’s Not “Racist” to Refuse Stimulus Money, Black Activists Say

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Washington, D.C. - Congressman James Clyburn (D-SC), the third-ranking member of the congressional leadership, has engaged in unnecessary and harmful race-baiting in his criticism of governors wary of accepting money from the so-called "stimulus" package, say members of the African-American ...
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Is a Constitutional Crisis Pending? Politicization of Census Hints Obama Scandal is in the Making

Is a Constitutional Crisis Pending? Politicization of Census Hints Obama Scandal is in the Making

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Washington, D.C. - Commerce Secretary-designate Judd Gregg's abrupt withdrawal implies a constitutional crisis involving the 2010 Census my be pending, says Mychal Massie, chairman of the Project 21 black leadership network. "One of the principal jobs of the Commerce Secretary ...
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Project 21 Chairman Mychal Massie Calls on Lawmakers to Make Sure the Most Controversial Aspects of the Stimulus Plan Were Removed During the House-Senate Conference

Project 21 Chairman Mychal Massie Calls on Lawmakers to Make Sure the Most Controversial Aspects of the Stimulus Plan Were Removed During the House-Senate Conference

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Washington, D.C. - Mychal Massie, chairman of the Project 21 black leadership network, is calling on lawmakers in both chambers to ascertain that the most controversial aspects of the stimulus were removed by the House-Senate conference before either chamber moves ...
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Black Activist Slams "Stimulus" Spending Making Billions Available to ACORN

Black Activist Slams “Stimulus” Spending Making Billions Available to ACORN

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Washington, D.C. - In the nearly trillion dollars in spending contained in the so-called "stimulus" bill the U.S. Senate is now considering are programs that could go into coffers of the left-wing group ACORN (the Association of Community Organizations for ...
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