Category: Woodson Center

[ATL:NOW] Bob Woodson: How Affirmative Action and ‘Helping Hand’ of Government Have ‘Decimated’ Black Communities

“Whenever you generalize about a group and then try to apply remedies to that group, it always helps those at the top at the expense of those at the bottom … Affirmative action is part of the whole race-grievance narrative. The assumption is that in order for blacks to achieve, then we must dumb down…


[ATL:NOW] Bob Woodson: How Affirmative Action and the ‘Helping Hand’ of Government Have ‘Decimated’ Black Communities

“Whenever you generalize about a group and then try to apply remedies to that group, it always helps those at the top at the expense of those at the bottom … Affirmative action is part of the whole race-grievance narrative. The assumption is that in order for blacks to achieve, then we must dumb down…


[PREMIERING 9:30PM ET] Bob Woodson: How Affirmative Action and ‘Helping Hand’ of Government Have ‘Decimated’ Black Communities [ATL:NOW]

“Whenever you generalize about a group and then try to apply remedies to that group, it always helps those at the top at the expense of those at the bottom … Affirmative action is part of the whole race-grievance narrative. The assumption is that in order for blacks to achieve, then we must dumb down…


Grieving Moms Tackle Taboo of Black-on-Black Crime to Heal Communities | The Nation Speaks

As homicides rise in minority neighborhoods, mama bears say they’ve had enough. Sylvia Bennett-Stone founded Voices of Black Mothers United under the Woodson Center, to try to stop the cycle of black-on-black crime—crime that killed her beautiful daughter. Then, in America Q&A we ask: Do you think black-on-black crime is an issue that should get…


‘Take Race Off the Table’—Bob Woodson on the Power of Grassroots Leaders to Rescue America from Moral and Spiritual Freefall

“I proudly say that 80 percent of my closest friends have letters in front of their names, like … ex-drug addict. Ex-gangbanger,” Bob Woodson says, chuckling. From facilitating truces between warring gangs to helping ailing communities triumph over violent addiction and social degradation, Bob Woodson has devoted the last 40 years to helping people in…