Posted on 05/20/2026 7:26:19 PM PDT by Red Badger
Robert L. Woodson, civil rights activist, community leader, and noted conservative author, died peacefully Wednesday at the age of 89. Woodson spent more than six decades challenging the poverty industry he believed exploited the very communities it claimed to serve. In 1981, he founded the National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise in Washington — later renamed the Woodson Center.
“Bob Woodson was more than the founder of an organization,” the Woodson Center’s statement reads. “He was a visionary and civil rights leader whose life transformed countless communities from the inside out. For more than six decades, his life’s work rested on a single, unwavering conviction: that the people closest to a problem are best positioned to solve it. That conviction shaped an entirely different way of understanding poverty, community, and the latent power of the people.”
Woodson’s philosophy put him at odds with much of the civil rights establishment. While the civil rights industry monetized grievance, Woodson rolled up his sleeves to produce results for black communities.
President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence pause for photographs with Center for Neighborhood Enterprises President Bob Woodson as he arrives at Trump National Golf Club Bedminster clubhouse in Bedminster, New Jersey, on Saturday, Nov. 19, 2016. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) In 1997, after a 12-year-old boy was murdered by feuding gangs in a southeast Washington housing project, he brokered a truce — holding meetings at his own office.
He worked with Philadelphia’s House of Umoja, which invited rival gang members into a family home and watched gang-related deaths in the city fall from 40 a year to one.
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RIP, Mr. Woodson.
Very sad news here.
We are losing our heavy hitters faster than they are being replaced.
Great American patriot and human being.
Such an inspiring man: we always knew where he stood. I last saw him on cable news a few months ago. RIP
Thankfully Thomas Sowell remains with us.
I had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Woodson - gentle and reserved. And smart as all get-out.
“We are losing our heavy hitters faster than they are being replaced”
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Even the name “Bob” is getting scarce...
There used to be a society of bobs in the 90s joke
More at this link...
Godspeed, Mr. Woodson.
I recall first seeing Bob Woodson on a Mark Levin interview that took place around 2020. I was impressed.
He eulogized him on his show last night.............
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