Tag: Press Release
Black Activists Ask U.S. Supreme Court to Invalidate Outdated Section of Voting Rights Act
Washington, DC - As the U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments today in the voting rights case Northwest Austin Municipal Utility District Number One v. Holder, the Project 21 black leadership network is joining with other organizations to ask that this ...
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Conservative Black Group Challenges Liberal Urban League’s “State of Black America 2009” Report
Washington, DC - This year’s edition of the liberal National Urban League's annual State of Black America report fails to effectively challenge the Obama Administration, is unnecessarily dreary and makes recommendations that would be harmful, say members of the conservative ...
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Supreme Court Decision Against Racial Gerrymandering Hailed
Washington, D.C. - Project 21 Chairman Mychal Massie today hailed a new U.S. Supreme Court decision prohibiting the use of the Voting Rights Act to supercede other laws to create predominantly black voting districts, saying the decision is a new ...
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Protest of New York Post’s Chimp Cartoon is an Attack on Rupert Murdoch, Black Activist Says
Washington, D.C. - Three apologies were offered by New York Post editors and its owner, Rupert Murdoch, for an editorial cartoon said to compare President Barack Obama to a chimpanzee. None of these apologies were accepted. Project 21 Chairman Mychal ...
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Congressman’s Race-Baiting on Stimulus Attacked; It’s Not “Racist” to Refuse Stimulus Money, Black Activists Say
Washington, D.C. - Congressman James Clyburn (D-SC), the third-ranking member of the congressional leadership, has engaged in unnecessary and harmful race-baiting in his criticism of governors wary of accepting money from the so-called "stimulus" package, say members of the African-American ...
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Is a Constitutional Crisis Pending? Politicization of Census Hints Obama Scandal is in the Making
Washington, D.C. - Commerce Secretary-designate Judd Gregg's abrupt withdrawal implies a constitutional crisis involving the 2010 Census my be pending, says Mychal Massie, chairman of the Project 21 black leadership network. "One of the principal jobs of the Commerce Secretary ...
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Project 21 Chairman Mychal Massie Calls on Lawmakers to Make Sure the Most Controversial Aspects of the Stimulus Plan Were Removed During the House-Senate Conference
Washington, D.C. - Mychal Massie, chairman of the Project 21 black leadership network, is calling on lawmakers in both chambers to ascertain that the most controversial aspects of the stimulus were removed by the House-Senate conference before either chamber moves ...
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Black Activist Slams “Stimulus” Spending Making Billions Available to ACORN
Washington, D.C. - In the nearly trillion dollars in spending contained in the so-called "stimulus" bill the U.S. Senate is now considering are programs that could go into coffers of the left-wing group ACORN (the Association of Community Organizations for ...
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Black Small Business Owner Cautions Against “Stimulus”
Washington, D.C. - The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) says the so-called stimulus bill would have a detrimental long-term effect on the nation's Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Commenting on this disturbing finding, a member of the Project 21 black leadership ...
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Statements on the Stimulus Plan
Statement of Tom Borelli, PhD, director of the Free Enterprise Project at the National Center for Public Policy Research: "The adage 'haste makes waste' applies to Obama's massive stimulus plan. In response to our economic crisis the liberal majority is ...
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