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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Coverage of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the Nexus archive.
- Bob Woodson taught me America’s wounds heal only through truth and courage
An obituary and tribute to Bob Woodson, a civil rights activist and founder of the National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise (later renamed the Woodson Center), who died at age 89. The article examines his journey from poverty in Philadelphia through the civil rights movement and his later work combating what he viewed as harmful dependency-creating welfare policies.