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Project 21’s Derryck Green on the Price of, Threat to Freedom

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On the occasion of Independence Day, Project 21 member Derryck Green reflects on the sacrifices made in the name of freedom, the current state of that liberty in our nation and what might be done to improve the future. Our ...
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What, to Black Americans, is the 4th of July?

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The following New Visions Commentary from Project 21 member Stacy Swimp was originally published in July of 2012: On July 5, 1852, the famous black abolitionist Frederick Douglass delivered a stinging indictment of American independence.  He did so because it ...
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Hat-Trick! Obama Leaves Labor Participation Stagnant for Three Months Straight

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It’s customary for the previous month’s unemployment numbers to be released on the first Friday of the successive month.  With the first Friday of July being a federal holiday, the government’s release of new jobless data was moved up by ...
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In Defense of the Lobbyist, by Gianno Caldwell

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Lobbyists have a bad reputation because it's said they are in it for themselves. It's said lobbyists will do anything to make a dollar and that special interest lobbyists are ruining America. But what is a lobbyist? Are they all ...
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How to End the Violence in “Chiraq”, by Gianno Caldwell

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Between July 3rd and July 7th, 82 people were wounded and 16 killed by gunfire. If you think I'm talking about violence in Iraq, you're wrong. I'm talking about happenings in "Chiraq," a new nickname for Chicago — my hometown ...
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It’s Not Up to Obama to Rename the Redskins, by Stacy Swimp

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The Obama PC police strike again. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office canceled trademark registrations for the Washington Redskins football team. The federal agency made this rare move deeming the team's name offensive to Native Americans. To be clear, I ...
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The Progressive War on Truth Claims Another Victim, by Stacy Washington

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Sean Bergin is the latest casualty in the progressive War on Truth. Bergin, a reporter for News 12, a regional television station in New York and New Jersey, interviewed the widow of a criminal shot and killed by police. Lawrence ...
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Black Activists Call 50th Anniversary of Civil Rights Act Enactment “Bittersweet” Occasion, Since Many Fail to Recognize the Progress That Has Been Made

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"The Civil Rights Act changed American culture... racist sentiment became largely outdated and unacceptable ...black people... are now the masters of their own destiny." "Today, black Americans and other minorities no longer face the daunting obstacles that existed prior to ...
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Hobby Lobby Decision Hailed by Black Activists

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Washington, D.C. - Black activists with the Project 21 black leadership network are cheering today's U.S. Supreme Court ruling that frees employers with strong religious beliefs from being forced to pay exorbitant fines to practice their faith. "Today, the Supreme ...
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Progressive Labor Laws Hurt Poor, Black Americans

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Minimum wage laws — a centerpiece of President Obama’s class warfare agenda — has its origins in anti-black sentiment? Yes! That fact and other unsettling details about the racial underpinnings of progressive labor laws are laid bare by Project 21 ...
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