Category: Project 21

African-Americans Favor Delay on Climate Change Legislation

African-Americans Favor Delay on Climate Change Legislation

Press Release /
Washington, DC - Democrats risk alienating one of their most important constituencies by advancing the Waxman-Markey climate change bill this week or any time before an economic recovery is underway, according to the non-partisan National Center for Public Policy Research ...
READ MORE
Black Activists Call Senate Slavery Apology "Useless"; Say It Will Empower the Call for Reparations

Black Activists Call Senate Slavery Apology “Useless”; Say It Will Empower the Call for Reparations

Press Release /
Washington, D.C. - The U.S. Senate resolution apologizing for slavery and segregation will be used as a lobbying tool to acquire reparations payments, say members of the black leadership network Project 21.  The group urges the Senate to "move on," ...
READ MORE
Black Conservatives Warn of Threat to Continued Freedom on “Juneteenth” Civil Rights Holiday

Black Conservatives Warn of Threat to Continued Freedom on “Juneteenth” Civil Rights Holiday

Press Release /
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 suggest the civil rights-themed holiday be used to ...
READ MORE
Black Leader Criticizes Voting Rights Act Supreme Court Compromise

Black Leader Criticizes Voting Rights Act Supreme Court Compromise

Press Release /
Justices Note “Serious Constitutional Concerns,” Yet Do Nothing to Fix Problem Washington, D.C. - A failure by the U.S. Supreme Court to act decisively to fix an inherent problem within the Voting Rights Act is drawing the condemnation of the ...
READ MORE
Jeffery Temple

Racism is Not the Cause of Health Disparities, by Jeffery Temple

New Visions Commentary /
  Racism is Not the Cause of Health Disparities by Jeffery Temple (bio) In 2002, a congressionally-commissioned report by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) determined health disparities between whites and minorities were caused by racial bias in America's health care ...
READ MORE
Mychal Massie

The Liberal Version of Harriet Miers, by Mychal Massie

New Visions Commentary /
  The Liberal Version of Harriet Miers by Mychal Massie (bio) Here we go again with all the hubbub over race, sex and ethnicity. I care no more about the sex, ethnicity or life story of President Obama's nominee to ...
READ MORE
Bishop Council Nedd II

Obama’s Real Religion: Politics, by Deneen Borelli

New Visions Commentary /
Enlightened Intolerance an Enemy of Democracy by Bishop Council Nedd II (bio) Just before last year's elections, I was dismayed to hear police speaking openly at a local restaurant about potential violence no matter who won the White House. Where ...
READ MORE
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

Press Release /
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 ...
READ MORE
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

Press Release /
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 ...
READ MORE
Jeffery Temple

Obama Transnationalists Agenda Undermines U.S. Sovereignty, by Jeffery Temple

New Visions Commentary /
Obama Transnationalist Agenda Undermines U.S. Sovereignty by Jeffery Temple (bio) Our nation came about from a rebellion against colonial rule. Now, 233 years after that independence was declared, the Obama Administration is poised to accelerate a trend to once again ...
READ MORE

Project 21, a leading voice of black conservatives for over 25 years, is sponsored by the National Center for Public Policy Research. Its members have been quoted, interviewed or published over 40,000 times since the program was created in 1992. Contributions to the National Center are tax-deductible and greatly appreciated, and may be earmarked exclusively for the use of Project 21.