Black History — The Good Men Project

Mississippi Is Enough

May 15, 2013 By Robert Reece Leave a Comment

love of place, home, homesickness, The South, African Americans

Robert Reece quit looking for his roots in distant lands that have not affected him so deeply as the history, culture, and people of Mississippi.

Filed Under: Quitting, Rural Black America, The Good Life Tagged With: acts of resistance, Africa, African-Americans, American history, ancestry testing, ancestry testing criticism, biological race, black Americans, Black heritage, Black History, Black pride, Blues Music, Caribbean, civil rights, courage, Dorothy Robert, family ancestry, family history, Fatal Invention, home, homesickness, Joe Pullen, love of place, Mississippi, motherland, Personhood Act, plantations, race, race myth, reproductive rights, resistance, Rudy Shields, sharecroppers, slavery, the South

I Come From: Three Essays from Venice High School Students

April 13, 2013 By The Good Life @ GMP 2 Comments

young male writers, young men who write, young men, high school boys, boys, poetry, pride, PEN USA

Marcus Anderson, Fernando Garcia, and Steve Miramontes are three young men who know where they come from.

Filed Under: Poetry by Kids, The Good Life Tagged With: African American History, angelenos, black culture, Black History, Black pride, Boys, california, crime, Families, gang violence, heritage, high school boys, homeless youth, Los Angeles, marijuana, PEN USA, poetry, pride, violence, writing prompts, young male writers, young men, young men who write, young writers

My Black Man Book Bias

October 25, 2011 By Mychal Denzel Smith 1 Comment

When Mychal Smith has free time to read, he finds himself putting brothers on the wall.

Filed Under: Editors' Picks, Ethics & Values, Featured Content, On Race Tagged With: black education, Black History, black men, Do the Right THing, education, James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Mychal Smith, Twitter, W.E.B. DuBois

Comment of the Day: ‘No Such Thing as Black History’

July 8, 2011 By the Editors 11 Comments

“There is no defending these kinds of statements.”

Filed Under: Comment of the Day, Good Feed Blog Tagged With: African-Americans, Black History, Michele Bachmann, Parenthood, slavery

‘Why I Don’t Want to Talk About Race’

January 8, 2011 By Steve Locke 204 Comments

Tom Matlack asked his friend Steve Locke to write for us about race. He declined. Here’s why.

Filed Under: Best of Ethics & Values, Editors' Picks, Ethics & Values, Featured Content, On Race, Trending Tagged With: Alexander Saxton, Andrew Hacker, Bell Hooks, Black History, Douglas A. Blackmon, Eric Lott, James Baldwin, Jim Vander Wall, Noel Ignatiev, oppression, Psychology Today, race, Racism, reconstruction, Ronald Takaki, W.E.B. DuBois, Ward Churchill

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Illinois Passes Bill for Comprehensive Sex-Ed in Public Schools

“In fantasy land, we teach our kids abstinence—and they listen.”

David R. Dow: Lessons From Death Row Inmates (TEDTalk VIDEO)

David R. Dow is an attorney in Texas who has defended over 100 death row inmates over the last 20 years.

HuffPost Live: Decapitating Extremism (VIDEO)

Mike Sacks discusses the attack in Woolwich, London, and extremism with a panel of experts on Islam and the Quran.

Our Mission: The Vasectomy Files 8

The Vasectomy Project is encouraging men to join forces and take responsibly for family planning. This is an opportunity to bring people together to talk about our collective responsibility while offering men a concrete way to contribute towards a solution by having a vasectomy.