Category: Project 21 Press Releases

Project 21 Press Release: Black Activists Respond to Bryant Gumbel's Racial Denigration of Winter Olympics

Project 21 Press Release: Black Activists Respond to Bryant Gumbel’s Racial Denigration of Winter Olympics

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Members of the black leadership network Project 21 are criticizing cable sports commentator Bryant Gumbel for injecting race and politics into remarks about the Winter Olympics, which are currently being held in Torino, Italy.  Project 21 members note that the ...
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Black Activists Outraged By Politicization of Coretta Scott King's Funeral

Black Activists Outraged By Politicization of Coretta Scott King’s Funeral

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Members of the black leadership network Project 21 are outraged by political grandstanding by speakers at the funeral for civil rights icon Coretta Scott King. In eulogies at the February 7 funeral, former President Jimmy Carter and Reverend Joseph Lowery ...
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Project 21 Press Release: Black Conservatives Slam Extremist Comments from NAACP Chairman Julian Bond

Project 21 Press Release: Black Conservatives Slam Extremist Comments from NAACP Chairman Julian Bond

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Members of the black leadership network Project 21 are appalled by comments NAACP chairman Julian Bond reportedly made during a recent speech in North Carolina.  Members say the radical nature of Bond's comments are detrimental to the civil rights group's ...
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Project 21 Press Release: Black Activists in Virginia Call for Eminent Domain Reform

Project 21 Press Release: Black Activists in Virginia Call for Eminent Domain Reform

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Virginia residents affiliated with the Project 21 black leadership network urge action in the commonwealth to protect property owners from eminent domain abuse.  They are issuing a challenge to lawmakers and other public officials to make Virginia a safe haven ...
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Project 21 Press Release: Black Conservatives Mourn the Passing of Coretta Scott King

Project 21 Press Release: Black Conservatives Mourn the Passing of Coretta Scott King

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Members of the black leadership network Project 21 are mourning the passing of Coretta Scott King.  Project 21 members praise her legacy of exhibiting strong family unity in the face of great personal tragedy and for maintaining her husband's dream ...
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Project 21 Press Release: Black Activists Condemn Senator Salazar for Calling Justice Thomas an "Abomination"

Project 21 Press Release: Black Activists Condemn Senator Salazar for Calling Justice Thomas an “Abomination”

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As Americans prepare to observe Black History Month, members of the black leadership network Project 21 are condemning U.S. Senator Ken Salazar (D-CO) for calling Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas an "abomination." During a teleconference with reporters on January 25 ...
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Charity Chief Commended for Promise to Account for Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Grant; Project 21 Members Urge CBCF to Be Similarly Forthcoming

Charity Chief Commended for Promise to Account for Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Grant; Project 21 Members Urge CBCF to Be Similarly Forthcoming

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Black activists are applauding the New Orleans non-profit "Community of Faith for Economic Empowerment," commonly known as COFFEE, for pledging to make public a full report on how Katrina aid monies it apparently received from the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation ...
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Project 21 Press Release: Black Cleric Derides New Orleans Mayor's "God is Mad at America" Assertion as "Plantation Politics"

Project 21 Press Release: Black Cleric Derides New Orleans Mayor’s “God is Mad at America” Assertion as “Plantation Politics”

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A clergyman affiliated with the black leadership network Project 21 is questioning the sincerity of New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin in light of comments Nagin made during a city observance of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday. During the January ...
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Blacks Repudiate Belafonte

Blacks Repudiate Belafonte

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With former singing star Harry Belafonte's anti-American rhetoric apparently increasing in fervor, members of the black leadership network Project 21 call upon prominent Americans - especially those who find themselves sharing a stage with Belafonte - to disavow his anti-American ...
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Black Activists Demand Congressional Black Caucus Release Katrina Aid; CBC Foundation Admits Holding Back Money Raised as Early as September

Black Activists Demand Congressional Black Caucus Release Katrina Aid; CBC Foundation Admits Holding Back Money Raised as Early as September

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Citing the hypocrisy of Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) members in criticizing federal relief efforts in the wake of Hurricane Katrina while their own nonprofit foundation held onto hundreds of thousands of dollars of corporate donations intended for rebuilding the shattered ...
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