Category: Project 21

Project 21 Release: Is It Wrong to Require Work in Exchange for a Welfare Check? - December 2001

Project 21 Release: Is It Wrong to Require Work in Exchange for a Welfare Check? – December 2001

Press Release /
Black Group Says Public Housing Residents Wrong to Spurn Community Service Provision Members of the African-American leadership network Project 21 sharply criticize a provision in the pending 2002 Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) spending bill that would repeal ...
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A Piece of Black History is Lost, by Kimberley Jane Wilson

A Piece of Black History is Lost, by Kimberley Jane Wilson

New Visions Commentary /
A New Visions Commentary paper published December 2001 by The National Center for Public Policy Research * 501 Capitol Ct., N.E., Washington, DC 20002, 202/543-4110, Fax 202-543-5975, E-Mail [email protected], Web http://www.nationalcenter.org. Reprints permitted provided source is credited. The Choctaw Terminal ...
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Patience or Panic? The EPA Seems to Let Demographics Decide, by Syd Gernstein

Patience or Panic? The EPA Seems to Let Demographics Decide, by Syd Gernstein

National Policy Analysis #380 /
Residents of the affluent Spring Valley community in Washington, D.C. will wake up this Christmas morning to open presents, eat coffeecake and maybe even brush snow off their SUVs and Mercedes as they have the past 15 years. Despite Spring ...
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King Family is Selling Out Martin's Legacy, by Michael King

King Family is Selling Out Martin’s Legacy, by Michael King

New Visions Commentary /
"I'm going to King-Land, King-Land; in Atlanta, G-A, I'm going to King-Land..." - with apologies to singer Paul Simon. It appears that the family of slain civil rights giant Martin Luther King, Jr. is looking for more ways to milk ...
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Still Reflecting on September 11 and Security, by R.D. Davis

Still Reflecting on September 11 and Security, by R.D. Davis

New Visions Commentary /
With the murderous destruction of the World Trade Center, many individual freedoms were also destroyed. And many more will inevitably fall. If there's one thing I hate, it's losing my freedom. I personally think I'm more sensitive to this than ...
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Project 21 Release: Civil Rights Commission Refuses to Seat Black Appointee; Black Network Says New Official's Conservative Beliefs Are No Justification for Discrimination - December 2001

Project 21 Release: Civil Rights Commission Refuses to Seat Black Appointee; Black Network Says New Official’s Conservative Beliefs Are No Justification for Discrimination – December 2001

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U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Chairman Mary Frances Berry's refusal to recognize the appointment of Commissioner Peter Kirsanow is akin to former governor George Wallace's refusal to integrate the Alabama school system say members of the African-American leadership network Project ...
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Will Blacks Fall for the "Old Line" -- the Race Card -- Once Again? by Kevin Martin

Will Blacks Fall for the “Old Line” — the Race Card — Once Again? by Kevin Martin

New Visions Commentary /
A New Visions Commentary paper published November 2001 by The National Center for Public Policy Research * 501 Capitol Ct., N.E., Washington, DC 20002, 202/543-4110, Fax 202-543-5975, E-Mail , Web http://www.nationalcenter.org. Reprints permitted provided source is credited. The nickname of ...
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Who's the Real Source of Wartime Hysteria? by Kimberley Jane Wilson

Who’s the Real Source of Wartime Hysteria? by Kimberley Jane Wilson

New Visions Commentary /
I'm feeling pretty grouchy. I recently attended the monthly meeting of one of my book clubs. Instead of discussing the really horrible imitation Terry McMillan novel we read this month, we had a guest speaker - "trauma/grief counselor." I'm not ...
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U.S. Space Program is Black America's Salvation, by B.B. Robinson, Ph.D.

U.S. Space Program is Black America’s Salvation, by B.B. Robinson, Ph.D.

New Visions Commentary /
There is a saying, "Among the greatest human urges are the realization of fame and fortune." Fame because most people want to be remembered fondly, and often, during their lifetime as well as after they die. Fortune because it takes ...
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Weak Preachers Want bin Laden "Safe and Saved", Not "Dead or Alive," by Jesse Peterson

Weak Preachers Want bin Laden “Safe and Saved”, Not “Dead or Alive,” by Jesse Peterson

New Visions Commentary /
There's never been a shortage of weak preachers. I'm sorry to say this is particularly true in the black community. In our communities, it seems there's a church on every corner. I've often said many black preachers are not called ...
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