Category: Project 21

For Our Children's Future, Replace Affirmative Action, by David Almasi

For Our Children’s Future, Replace Affirmative Action, by David Almasi

New Visions Commentary /
Affirmative action doesn't work. Mentoring, on the other hand, is proving to be a smashing success. It truly helps minorities in schools and the workplace without creating the hard feeling bred by quotas. I recently had the pleasure of meeting ...
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Education, Education, Education, by E. LaMay Lathan

Education, Education, Education, by E. LaMay Lathan

New Visions Commentary /
Education can change a life. Given its importance, why are so many black kids steering clear of it like the plague? We can't just blame the kids when teachers, schools, hardships, single-parent households and other things share responsibility. We've provided ...
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Longing for Fathers, by Reverend Jesse Lee Peterson

Longing for Fathers, by Reverend Jesse Lee Peterson

New Visions Commentary /
A New Visions Commentary paper published June 1999 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. I once spoke to approximately ...
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Blacks "Gored" By a Lie: Al Gore Sr., the GOP and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, by R.D. Davis

Blacks “Gored” By a Lie: Al Gore Sr., the GOP and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, by R.D. Davis

New Visions Commentary /
A New Visions Commentary paper published May 1999 by The National Center for Public Policy Research. Reprints permitted provided source is credited. It is easy to control the minds of a people. All one has to do is change history ...
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African-Americans Are Being Left Behind in the Information Age, by Council Nedd

African-Americans Are Being Left Behind in the Information Age, by Council Nedd

New Visions Commentary /
A 1998 Vanderbilt University study found that 73% of white high school and college students have a computer in their home, yet only 33% of their black peers do. 28% of white Americans with household incomes of less than $40,000 ...
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All Hail the Common Man, by Mike Ramey

All Hail the Common Man, by Mike Ramey

New Visions Commentary /
I have often wondered why commencement speakers are usually someone rich and famous. It seems sad that the day of hearing parting words from a minister, elected official or other worthy speaker has almost disappeared. In the modern view, a ...
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Earth Day No Holiday for Black Americans - April 1999

Earth Day No Holiday for Black Americans – April 1999

Press Release /
Black Leadership Network Faults Anti-Minority Environment Policies Members of the African-American leadership network Project 21 find fault with the beliefs and goals of radical environmentalists who are celebrating Earth Day on April 22. These activists regularly promote drastic regulations that ...
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Authority, by Eddie Huff

Authority, by Eddie Huff

New Visions Commentary /
A New Visions Commentary paper published April 1999 by The National Center for Public Policy Research, 501 Capitol Court, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20002, 202/543-4110, Fax 202/543-5975, E-Mail [email protected], Web http://www.nationalcenter.org. Reprints permitted provided source is credited. I got a chuckle ...
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Court Shoots an Air Ball on NCAA Academic Standards, by Michael King

Court Shoots an Air Ball on NCAA Academic Standards, by Michael King

New Visions Commentary /
When a federal court recently threw out the NCAA's academic standards for freshman college athletes because the standardized tests they were based on were thought to be culturally biased against blacks, it effectively set up yet another barrier for groups ...
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The Big Lie: Margaret Sanger's "Negro Project," by Kimberley Jane Wilson

The Big Lie: Margaret Sanger’s “Negro Project,” by Kimberley Jane Wilson

New Visions Commentary /
Many years ago, when I was still a first grader, my father and I went for a walk. We strolled past a brand-new building made of shining white concrete and gleaming glass doors. My father had been quite interested in ...
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