“Whenever you generalize about a group and then try to apply remedies to that group, it always helps those at the top at the expense of those at the bottom … Affirmative action is part of the whole race-grievance narrative. The assumption is that in order for blacks to achieve, then we must dumb down…

“Whenever you generalize about a group and then try to apply remedies to that group, it always helps those at the top at the expense of those at the bottom … Affirmative action is part of the whole race-grievance narrative. The assumption is that in order for blacks to achieve, then we must dumb down…

“Whenever you generalize about a group and then try to apply remedies to that group, it always helps those at the top at the expense of those at the bottom … Affirmative action is part of the whole race-grievance narrative. The assumption is that in order for blacks to achieve, then we must dumb down…

As homicides rise in minority neighborhoods, mama bears say they’ve had enough. Sylvia Bennett-Stone founded Voices of Black Mothers United under the Woodson Center, to try to stop the cycle of black-on-black crime—crime that killed her beautiful daughter. Then, in America Q&A we ask: Do you think black-on-black crime is an issue that should get…

“I proudly say that 80 percent of my closest friends have letters in front of their names, like … ex-drug addict. Ex-gangbanger,” Bob Woodson says, chuckling. From facilitating truces between warring gangs to helping ailing communities triumph over violent addiction and social degradation, Bob Woodson has devoted the last 40 years to helping people in…