Special Projects
The National Center for Public Policy Research is one of the few, possibly the only, U.S. conservative organization to have an extensive long term outreach to the African American community. Since 1992, the group has sponsored Project 21, a "national leadership group of black conservatives." Consisting of several hundred members, Project 21 provides research and commentary on public policy issues from a conservative black perspective to the U.S. news media at large and to African American community newspapers and media outlets. According to the organization, Project 21 members, all of whom are black, were published, quoted or interviewed over 12,000 times on a variety of public policy issues between 1992-2006.
Edmund Peterson was the first chairman of Project 21. It presently is chaired by NewsMax columnist Mychal Massie. Deneen Moore was appointed Project 21's first full-time senior fellow in 2006. Project 21's staff director is David W. Almasi, who is white.
Of Project 21, the liberal magazine The Nation said in May 2005, "Project 21 remains a crucial gear in the right’s propaganda factory. Without cadres would probably be at home screaming at the TV. But instead, they’re on TV."
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