Many miles from home, Atalwin Pilon recalls a teacher’s wisdom: Clean up the relationship with your parents and you can do the marriage with your left hand.
Who Do U Think U R?
April 16, 2012 By 2 Comments
How two musically talented teenagers brought their Texas high school together to combat bullying.
Why Stuff White People Like is Something I Don’t
April 14, 2012 By 60 Comments
Plenty of white people found something to love about the hit website Stuff White People Like. Oliver Lee Bateman wasn’t one of them.
May I Help You?
April 9, 2012 By 3 Comments
John Tinseth recalls his first run-in with the law, and how his father’s reaction taught him something about what it means to be a good man.
Teaching Carefully
April 9, 2012 By 4 Comments
As her sons care for a lost Chihuahua, Julie Gillis looks for teachers, healers, systems thinkers, interpreters, bridge builders, and storytellers as a way toward social change.
The Pitt Bomb Threats: How Should a Good Man Respond to Terrorism?
April 9, 2012 By 8 Comments
The University of Pittsburgh has received nearly 60 bomb threats. Copycat threats have been made elsewhere in Pittsburgh. What should be done about this?
Fear and Trembling at the University of Pittsburgh
April 8, 2012 By 8 Comments
There have been 45 bomb threats received at the University of Pittsburgh since mid-February. Why should people outside of the campus community care?
Poetry on Video: “Easter”
April 8, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Rick Belden reads a poem called “Easter” from his book Iron Man Family Outing: Poems about Transition into a More Conscious Manhood.
Think We Should Keep IVF Legal?
April 2, 2012 By 11 Comments
Men need fertility treatments just as much as women, writes Lee Rubin Collins, so “personhood” amendments are about their rights, too.
Trayvon Martin and the Fate of the Alabama Segregation Reference Ban Amendment
April 1, 2012 By 6 Comments
Everybody’s talking about the shooting of Trayvon Martin. Nobody’s talking about Alabama Senate Bill 112. That needs to change.
Dirt Under Our Nails
March 30, 2012 By 6 Comments
Julie Gillis witnessed the moment where broken hearts begin. She wonders what can we all do to fix them, together.
Walking Your Talk: The Path of Personal Integrity
March 28, 2012 By 1 Comment
Do you walk your talk? Say what you mean and mean what you say? Or does your language take you down roads you’re not willing to follow?
Internalized Racism
March 25, 2012 By 40 Comments
Noah Brand admits that yes, he has internalized racial baggage. Just like everyone else.
Maybe I Am a Good Guy
March 24, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Atalwin Polin talks about how to love others and yourself in the face of trauma, loneliness, and feelings of inadequacy.
The Left and Right Must Come Together Over Trayvon Martin
March 24, 2012 By 18 Comments
T.J. McCormack believes that if we truly want a post-racist society, both the left and the right need to drop the rhetoric and up the compassion, and meet somewhere in the middle.
Vocalyze
Is Your Blog Stalked By Trolls? Here’s Why.
Pauline Gaines wonders what makes some commenters feel they have the right to rip a blogger into teeny-tiny pieces.
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