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New Web Site Focuses on Reparations Debate

New Web Site Focuses on Reparations Debate

Press Release /
New Web Site Focuses on Reparations Debate African-American Group Seeks to Provide Objective Source of InformationAmericans are sharply divided over proposals for the U.S. government to pay reparations to blacks as part of an apology for the once-legal practice of ...
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Historic Preservation Saves Buildings But Robs Residents of Goods and Services, by Syd Gernstein

Historic Preservation Saves Buildings But Robs Residents of Goods and Services, by Syd Gernstein

National Policy Analysis #413 /
Homes of black heroes such as Frederick Douglass and Carter G. Woodson, where roofs leak and walls are collapsing, are historic landmarks located in our nation's capital that need protection.1 A still-operating grocery store and a boarded-up hardware store, however, ...
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Giving With One Hand, Taking Away with the Other: Competing Government Policies Both Promote and Deny Homeownership Opportunities for Minorities, by David Almasi

Giving With One Hand, Taking Away with the Other: Competing Government Policies Both Promote and Deny Homeownership Opportunities for Minorities, by David Almasi

National Policy Analysis #402 /
It's three steps forward, but two steps back. Policies removing barriers to minority homeownership are favored by governments, but the competing objective of combating the perceived threat of urban sprawl by some of these governments is simultaneously restricting homeownership opportunities ...
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Smart Growth and Its Effects on Housing Markets: The New Segregation (full text)

Smart Growth and Its Effects on Housing Markets: The New Segregation (full text)

Environmental Justice Study /
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Congress Takes a Byte Out of the FCC, by Faye Anderson

Congress Takes a Byte Out of the FCC, by Faye Anderson

National Policy Analysis #204 /
The millennium computer bug has bitten Vice President Al Gore. I'm not talking about the Y2K programming crisis. Gore's gigabyte-size problem stems from his role as head cheerleader for the Clinton administration's plan to wire all schools and libraries to ...
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Blacks Say Labor Union Behavior is Best Reason for "Paycheck Protection"

Blacks Say Labor Union Behavior is Best Reason for “Paycheck Protection”

Press Release /
California voters will go to the polls on June 2 to decide the fate of a paycheck protection ballot initiative. California members of the African-American leadership network Project 21 point out that the practices and tactics used by organized labor ...
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Black Teen Suicide Study Alarming, Yet Misleading

Black Teen Suicide Study Alarming, Yet Misleading

Press Release /
Members of the African-American leadership network Project 21 reject a recent Center for Disease Control and Prevention study on teen suicide that says African-American teens reared in upwardly mobile families are not able to cope with the "stressful" environment created ...
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Black Leadership Network Outraged Over Snub of Former Congressman

Black Leadership Network Outraged Over Snub of Former Congressman

Press Release /
Former Congressman Floyd Flake (D-NY) was abruptly uninvited to the Indiana Black Legislative Caucus Prayer Breakfast earlier this month because some members of the Caucus objected to his support of school vouchers, an issue which was to be mentioned in ...
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Amistad: Reingniting Fears Through History, by B. B. Robinson

Amistad: Reingniting Fears Through History, by B. B. Robinson

New Visions Commentary /
We all have fears. Like most Americans, European-Americans without racist attitudes fear a weak economy, a bad president or schools unable to educate their children. However, many African-Americans believe that European-Americans with racist attitudes still harbor a genuine fear of ...
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A Black Conservative Congressman Defines the American Dream

A Black Conservative Congressman Defines the American Dream

A New Visions Commentary paper published September 1996 by The National Center for Public Policy Research, 20 F Street NW, Suite 700 , Washington, D.C. 20001, (202) 507-6398, Fax (301) 498-1301, E-Mail [email protected] When it comes to the American dream, ...
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