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Provision of the "Agriculture and Nutrition Act of 2018" (HR 2, the "Farm Bill") "Compliant" With Project 21's "Blueprint for a Better Deal for Black America"

 A provision of the "Agriculture and Nutrition Act of 2018" (HR 2, the "Farm Bill") requiring able-bodied recipients who receive food stamp benefits to work is "Blueprint Compliant," according to the black leadership network Project 21. This means it is consistent with a recommendation included in the group's"Blueprint for a Better Deal fo

 Jim Crow-era regulations created for the express purpose of denying blacks economic opportunity are still on the books and must be repealed to promote black prosperity, according to the Project 21 black leadership network in its forthcoming "Blueprint for a Better Deal for Black America."

Recommendations in Project 21's Blueprint meant to encourage employment opportunities for black communities are being released just after the U.S. Department of Labor' Bureau of Labor Statistics announced its

• Black Activists Respond to President Trump's First State of the Union Address
• Trump Congratulated on "Well-Written and Well-Delivered Speech" to "Make Americans Freer, Happier and Even More Prosperous"

Washington, DC - Following President Donald Trump's first State of the Union address, black activists with the Project 21 leadership network are available for comment.

In tonight's address, President Trump spoke of a "new American moment" in which "[t]here has never been a better time to star

"Cynical" Attack on National Anthem Divides Nation

NAACP Chapter's Demand Contradicts Earlier Claims That Protests Are Not About Flag.

Washington, DC - As the NAACP's California chapter argues that the "Star-Spangled Banner" should be dropped as America's national song because it is "racist" and "anti-black," members of the Project 21 black leadership network condemn such claims as cynical and divisive.  Black conservatives with Project 21 also note that this lobbying by the NAACP conflicts wi

Project 21 Members Say Stunt "Only Serves to Racially Fracture Our National Psyche"

 
- The NAACP recently issued a "travel advisory" for the state of Missouri that suggests a "looming danger" exists there.  Members of the Project 21 black leadership network who live in Missouri see this as an unproductive publicity stunt ignoring the real problems affecting black residents in the Show Me State – particularly in the city of St. Louis. 

Originating with the Missouri NAACP State Conference and rec

Black Conservative Leader Stacy Washington Was Called Out by Post Columnist for Saying Americans Should Be Outraged by Demeaning Statements Made By Musicians and Others, Not Just Politicians

Washington Calls on All Americans to Push Society in "A Just and Honorable Direction"

St. Louis, MO /Washington, D.C. - Stacy Washington, Urban Talk Radio host and a national spokesman for the black leadership group Project 21, has issued this response to a Washington Post article attacking Washington's con

Washington, DC - Leaders of th

Washington, DC - Commenting on President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address tonight, members of the Project 21 black leadership network saw a presidency lacking new ideas that suggested Obama may be “running out the clock” on his presidency without much vision but with plenty of continued class warfare and big government rhetoric.
“President Obama really did not offer anything new in his address to Congress. All he did was present the American people with the same old clunker policies spra

As it stands now, the GOP will never win another presidential election. 

Let me explain what I mean: 

The American electorate has changed, and with it - so too has the formula to win elections. 

The GOP's goal of turning out their base of older, white voters and winning over independents is no longer sufficient to win presidential elections. 

For too long the GOP has been content with just appealing to white voters. We will never heal America and win consistently until conservatives are just as su

Washington, DC - With the U.S. Supreme Court finished handing down opinions for its recently-completed term, members of the Project 21 black leadership network joined a legal brief that was recently filed with the Court t

Legal experts with the Project 21 black leadership network are applauding new voter protections signed into law this week by North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory.

"I'm thrilled to see that North Carolina is joining the brigade of states enforcing Voter

Project 21 Co-Chairman Horace Cooper

Black Legal Expert Condemns Latest DOJ Attack on Texas Voter ID