Dear friends, I am thrilled to tell you that CEO has joined the Heritage Foundation’s 2025 Presidential Transition Project (Project 2025) Advisory Board. Project 2025 is creating the playbook that will equip the next administration with conservative policy recommendations and the properly vetted and trained personnel ready on day one to govern and rebuild the American way of life. We have a heavy lift ahead of us. As you already know, the current administration has done its level best to undo what makes our country exceptional. For example, the foundational American value of equal opportunity under the law has been …

Dear friends, I am pleased to share with you that CEO has signed onto and is supporting a new initiative of the Philanthropy Roundtable. We are delighted to join with other allies like Rick Graber of The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Steven Anderson of Pacific Legal Foundation, and Judge Janice Rogers Brown in supporting a Statement of Principles of True Diversity. True Diversity Diversity as practiced in most American institutions today value group identity over the value of the individual. True Diversity is an equality-based initiative that promotes a thoughtful and holistic approach to embracing diversity. It provides a …

This opinion was originally published by The Washington Times. Ample news stories from across the country have reported on recent attacks perpetrated by young Black assailants, some resulting in death. This behavior didn’t manifest itself overnight. It was developed by a pipeline, starting at home, that fails Black children. For example, on June 24 at approximately 2:30 a.m., a group of Black kids brutally attacked 73-year-old James Lambert, a Black man, in Philadelphia. He died a day later due to the beating and now, two of the seven assailants, brothers 10 and 14, have turned themselves in to authorities. And, …

Dear CEO friends,   Summer is finally upon us and the Center for Equal Opportunity has been heating up lately, figuratively and literally! Here’s our latest… Back to Washington, D.C.  As you may have heard, CEO moved offices earlier this month after more than 20 years in nearby Northern Virginia. We are thrilled to be back in Washington, D.C., where we will now be closer to our allies and the fight for colorblind equal opportunity. And though part of our building actually caught fire last week, we love the new location at historic Canal Square. (Thankfully no one was hurt, …

School fit, delaying college and meaningful experiences This article originally appeared in the Washington Times For generations now, Black Americans have lagged — oftentimes, significantly — behind other racial and ethnic groups in multiple measures of socioeconomic achievement. By some estimates when compared to white Americans, for example, the Black poverty rate is more than twice as high and Black students at public colleges are 250% less likely to graduate. So, in light of this troubling reality, do Black Americans need special treatment to succeed?  This was the question posed to me at this month’s Old Parkland Conference in Dallas …