Robert L. Woodson, Sr., is founder and president of the Woodson Center, 1776 Unites, and Voices of Black Mothers United. He is a former resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and onetime director of the National Urban League’s Administration of Justice division.
Woodson is a recipient of both the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation’s “Genius” Fellowship award and the Bradley Prize awarded by Milwaukee’s Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation.
Building a better future for young Black men and women just can’t be done in a research institute, no matter how well-funded. It is going to happen in classrooms, in living rooms, in churches, and on sidewalks.
