Hi, this is Newt.

Due to the virus I'm recording from home, so you may notice a difference in audio quality.

On this episode of Newt's World, when we talk about Black Lives Matter, my guest today

who's made the well-being of the Black community, this lifelong mission.

Robert L. Woodson Sr. founded the Woodson Center in 1981 to help residents of low-income

neighborhoods address the problems of the communities.

A former civil rights activist, he's headed the National Urban League Development, I'm

sorry, he's headed the National Urban League Department of Criminal Justice and has been

a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Foundation for Public Policy Research.

Referred to by many as Godfather of the neighborhood Empowerment Movement, for more than four

decades, Woodson is at a special concern for the problems of youth.

In response to the epidemic of youth violence that has afflicted urban, rural and suburban

neighborhoods alike, I'm pleased to welcome my guest and good friend, Robert Woodson Sr.

I have worked with Bob off and on all the way back into the Reagan years.

He had an enormous impact on Jack Kempon and myself and others, his new book.

Lessons from the least of these, the Woodson principles, will be released on December

8, 2020 and will be a very timely addition to where we are now.

So let me start Bob if I could and just ask you to spend a minute or two about the journey

you've been on because you've really had a remarkable life and I don't think it was

necessarily predictable in any way.

I have a veteran of the civil rights movement, but I part a company with the movement in

the 60s over the issues of force busing for integration.

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