Category: Project 21

A Relationship with God Plays into Lives of Both Virtue and Vice, by Leah Sammons

A Relationship with God Plays into Lives of Both Virtue and Vice, by Leah Sammons

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At an earlier time in their lives, Steven L. Craft and Roxon Flowers could not appear more different.  Craft was a drug addict.  Flowers was a New York City detective. Eventually, however, these two seemingly disparate spirits became friends.  In ...
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Making Sense of Mexico, by Jeffrey Brian Hicks

Making Sense of Mexico, by Jeffrey Brian Hicks

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While trying to morally justify the continuous and illegal flow of Mexican nationals over our border, Mexican President Vicente Fox recently sparked an uproar that may be telling about Mexican society. With national security and economic concerns related to this ...
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Project 21 Press Release: Black Activists Ask Bush to Consider Constructionist Jurists for Supreme Court; List of Characteristics Important to Black Americans Cited

Project 21 Press Release: Black Activists Ask Bush to Consider Constructionist Jurists for Supreme Court; List of Characteristics Important to Black Americans Cited

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Today's announcement of a vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court provides President George W. Bush with an important duty that has the potential to affect judicial decision-making for generations to come. Members of the black leadership network Project 21 are ...
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New HIV/AIDS Statistics Show Blacks "Most Severely Impacted" Group; Black Americans Urged to Adopt a "Conservative Lifestyle"

New HIV/AIDS Statistics Show Blacks “Most Severely Impacted” Group; Black Americans Urged to Adopt a “Conservative Lifestyle”

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With the release of startling new government figures on HIV and AIDS showing African-Americans are the "most severely impacted" community, members of the black leadership network Project 21 are repeating a call to black Americans to be more conscious of ...
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Project 21 Press Release: Black Activist Decries Civil Rights Apologists; Senate Apology for Lynching Perpetuates "Posture of the Victim"

Project 21 Press Release: Black Activist Decries Civil Rights Apologists; Senate Apology for Lynching Perpetuates “Posture of the Victim”

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On June 13, the U.S. Senate passed a resolution by a voice vote apologizing to the victims, survivors and descendent of racist lynchings that occurred between 1882 and 1968. The first anti-lynching legislation was introduced 105 years ago. Such legislation ...
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Learning Clarence Thomas's First Principles, by Darryn "Dutch" Martin

Learning Clarence Thomas’s First Principles, by Darryn “Dutch” Martin

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From his gut-wrenching confirmation hearings in 1991 through his past 13 years on the bench, Clarence Thomas is likely the most misunderstood justice ever to sit on the United States Supreme Court. As a black conservative jurist, he continues to ...
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The Lionel Tate Saga Continues, by Darryn "Dutch" Martin

The Lionel Tate Saga Continues, by Darryn “Dutch” Martin

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Lionel Tate is back in the news again. Tate is the young black boy from Florida who was convicted of brutally murdering a six-year-old girl when he was only 12 and became the youngest person in American history to be ...
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"Crash" Causes Pain, by B.B. Robinson

“Crash” Causes Pain, by B.B. Robinson

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Recent box office receipts indicate a significant number of people are taking notice of "Crash," a recent movie that attempts to explain why each of us may hold certain notions about other ethnic groups. Douglas Young, on the Internet Movie ...
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Janice Rogers Brown's Equal Justice, by Craig DeLuz

Janice Rogers Brown’s Equal Justice, by Craig DeLuz

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One of the most contentious of President George W. Bush's judicial nominees was California Supreme Court Associate Justice Janice Rogers Brown.  Highly rated by the American Bar Association, Justice Brown is praised by her peers on the California Supreme Court, ...
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Project 21 Press Release: Black Activists Praise Janice Rogers Brown; Say Nominee "Epitomizes the Greatness of America"

Project 21 Press Release: Black Activists Praise Janice Rogers Brown; Say Nominee “Epitomizes the Greatness of America”

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Activists from the black leadership network Project 21 are praising Senate leaders for their efforts to secure an up-or-down vote on the nomination of California Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown for a seat on the federal Circuit Court of ...
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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.