Category: Project 21 Press Releases

Project 21 Press Release: Sharpton Must Apologize; Weeks After Imus Crusade, Sharpton Shows Intolerance of His Own

Project 21 Press Release: Sharpton Must Apologize; Weeks After Imus Crusade, Sharpton Shows Intolerance of His Own

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Black activists representing the Project 21 leadership network are calling upon the Reverend Al Sharpton to acknowledge and apologize for his inappropriate and insensitive remarks directed at the Mormon faith.  The particular shame of Sharpton making such a statement, Project ...
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Project 21 Press Release: Referee Racism in Pro Basketball? Black Activists Skeptical of New Study

Project 21 Press Release: Referee Racism in Pro Basketball? Black Activists Skeptical of New Study

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Black activists charged today that premature release of a new study claiming a racial bias by NBA referees will unnecessarily incite racial tensions. Business professor Justin Wolfers of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and Joseph Price, a ...
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Blacks Back Wolfowitz: Project 21 Members and International Leaders Praise Wolfowitz's Focus on Africa; Efforts to End Poverty and Corruption

Blacks Back Wolfowitz: Project 21 Members and International Leaders Praise Wolfowitz’s Focus on Africa; Efforts to End Poverty and Corruption

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Black activists with the Project 21 leadership network are voicing their support for embattled World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz because of his strong commitment to helping ease poverty and suffering on the African continent. "It's unconscionable that, when there is ...
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Black Activists Support President Bush's Iraq Timetable Veto

Black Activists Support President Bush’s Iraq Timetable Veto

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Veterans who are members of the black leadership network Project 21 are supporting President George W. Bush's veto of the recently-passed emergency military spending bill because it contains a timetable for pulling U.S. troops out of Iraq. "It was a ...
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Project 21 Press Release: Black Activists Criticize Congressional Proposals to Create a Race-Based Hawaiian Government

Project 21 Press Release: Black Activists Criticize Congressional Proposals to Create a Race-Based Hawaiian Government

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Without a hearing, the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Natural Resources is expected to vote on the "Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act of 2007" (H.R. 505) on May 2.  Members of the black leadership network Project 21 are expressing ...
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Project 21 Press Release: Black Activists Laud Supreme Court's Ban on Partial Birth Abortion

Project 21 Press Release: Black Activists Laud Supreme Court’s Ban on Partial Birth Abortion

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Today's U.S. Supreme Court ruling upholding a legislative ban on the practice of partial birth abortion is being hailed by members of the black leadership network Project 21 as a victory for the safety and welfare of the unborn as ...
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Project 21 Press Release: Black Conservatives: Duke Rape Case Shows Importance of "Innocent Until Proven Guilty"

Project 21 Press Release: Black Conservatives: Duke Rape Case Shows Importance of “Innocent Until Proven Guilty”

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Today's announcement that dubious sexual assault charges filed against the three current and former Duke students were dropped has members of the Project 21 black leadership network sharply criticizing those who used the year-long investigation to create racial animosity for ...
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Project 21 Press Release: Black Conservatives Speak Out on Don Imus Controversy, Criticism

Project 21 Press Release: Black Conservatives Speak Out on Don Imus Controversy, Criticism

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Don Imus has been suspended by CBS Radio and MSNBC for two weeks in the wake of comments made on his April 4, 2007 syndicated radio show.  On that show, Imus called members of the Rutgers University women's basketball team ...
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Cesar Chavez Did Little to Stop His Union's Violence, Charges Civil Rights Activist at Congressional Hearing on Honoring Chavez

Cesar Chavez Did Little to Stop His Union’s Violence, Charges Civil Rights Activist at Congressional Hearing on Honoring Chavez

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Joe R. Hicks, a Project 21 member who marched arm-in-arm with Jesse Jackson at Cesar Chavez's funeral in 1993, will testify before Congress March 29 in opposition to spending public funds honoring the late United Farm Workers union organizer. Hicks ...
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House Action on Iraq Supports 'Disgrace and Defeat', Black Leader Says

House Action on Iraq Supports ‘Disgrace and Defeat’, Black Leader Says

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Project 21’s Kevin Martin is speaking out in support of President George W. Bush's decision to veto the controversial emergency supplemental spending bill for troops in Iraq and Afghanistan that was approved by the House today by a thin 218-212 ...
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