When Eric Holder Plays the Race Card, Black Conservatives Say, Justice Suffers

When Eric Holder Plays the Race Card, Black Conservatives Say, Justice Suffers

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Washington, D.C. – Members of the Project 21 black leadership network are appalled that Attorney General Eric Holder used the race card to block congressional inquiries into the Justice Department's silence and possible mishandling of a race-fueled voting rights case ...
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R. Dozier Gray of Project 21: Left Largely Silent on Libya

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Project 21 member R. Dozier Gray authored a commentary published this week by Pajamas Media about the American left’s failure to criticize the oppression of Libyans under dictator Muammar Gaddafi right now as they have criticized the U.S. government in ...
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Racism Double Standard at the NAACP, by Deneen Borelli

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It's clear that the civil rights establishment, knee-jerk toward what it perceives to be discrimination, turns a blind eye to intolerance and incivility directed at conservatives — even when the victims are black. Over the past two years, for example, ...
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The Coming War on Menthol Cigarettes, by Horace Cooper

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Last year, not long after the Food and Drug Administration got legislative authority to regulate tobacco, "flavored" cigarettes were banned — on behalf of the children. This was largely a publicity stunt since Twista Lime, Kauai Kolada and other flavored ...
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Obama is Not Heeding to the Lesson of Wisconsin, by Deneen Borelli

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President Barack Obama is surrounded by a broad and diverse array of challenges.  From slow economic growth and high unemployment to emerging international crises, Obama faces mounting pressure to show leadership. But all of these weighty national and international burdens ...
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What Can the Tea Party Do to Attract Minorities? by Emery McClendon

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As a tea party organizer and black man, I am often asked how a movement with the critical mission of saving and restoring our republic can attract minorities currently weak in numbers in tea party ranks. The mainstream media and ...
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Obama's Defense of Gay Marriage Over Rule of Law Challenged by Black Conservatives

Obama’s Defense of Gay Marriage Over Rule of Law Challenged by Black Conservatives

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Washington, D.C. – Black conservatives with the Project 21 leadership network say President Obama's decision that the executive branch will no longer defend the Defense of Marriage Act because of its alleged unconstitutionality is unconstitutional in itself — and point ...
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Jesse Jackson "Out of Line" Comparing Madison, Columbus to Cairo

Jesse Jackson “Out of Line” Comparing Madison, Columbus to Cairo

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Washington, D.C. – Jesse Jackson has reappeared, surfacing at rallies in Madison, Wisconsin and Columbus, Ohio in support of public employees attacking efforts to reform some collective bargaining practices in order to close deficits threatening state governments with bankruptcy. Project ...
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Blacks’ Role in the U.S. Economy, by B.B. Robinson, Ph.D.

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Some black women are not very concerned about the fact that 72 percent of black babies born in 2008 were born out of wedlock. These women take an analytical approach to relationships and don't always see a valid reason to ...
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Project 21’s Council Nedd Offers Alternative Opinion on Muslim Brotherhood

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It’s still very uncertain what kind of government will end up running Egypt since dictator Hosni Mubarak’s ouster by popular uprising. One obvious concern is that Muslim fundamentalists along the lines of those who prevailed in Iran in 1979 may ...
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