Conservative black intellectuals speak

We are responsible for our own community development

    The Hoover Institution recently transmitted an episode in the Heritage Foundation program, Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson.  Entitled “The Black Experience in America,” the program consisted of a sixty-minute interview by Robinson of Glen Loury, Ian Rowe, and Robert Woodson.

     Glen Loury grew up in Chicago’s South Side, obtained degrees from Northwestern and MIT, and now is Professor of Economics at Brown University.  Ian Rowe is a product of the New York city public school system and holds degrees from Cornell and Harvard.  A fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, he is the founder of Vertex Partnership Academics, which runs charter schools in the Bronx.  Robert Woodson, founder of the Woodson Center, participated in the civil rights movement in the 1960s; and since the 1970s, he has advocated neighborhood empowerment over government action.  Two years ago, he countered The New York Times’ 1619 Project with the creation of 1776 Unites. 

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