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Does Black Life Matter More When Raised by White Parents?

April 15, 2013 By Chad Goller-Sojourner 2 Comments

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Chad Goller-Sojourner knows the value of at least one white privilege.

Filed Under: Featured Content, On Race Tagged With: Aaron Campbell shooting, Amadou Diallo, biracial families, black boys, Black men mental illness, black men murdered by police, black men white privilege, children race, institutional racism, media images of Black men, racial stereotypes, Racism, racist police, Trayvon Martin, unarmed black man killed, unarmed black man shot by police, violence against black men, white parents black sons, white people, White Privilege

The Invisible World of Rural Black America: Part 2

February 25, 2013 By Lola Rainey 3 Comments

Join Lola Rainey on a guided tour through American history with her father and uncle, sons of a Texas sharecropper.

Filed Under: Featured Content, On Race, Rural Black America, The Good Life, Travel Tagged With: 1956, 1964, African American service men, American culture, American interstate system, American society, anti-discrimination, arizona, Black America, black families, black men in military, brothers, Central Texas, Civil Rights Act, convenience stores, corruption, country life, discrimination, Driving While Black, East Texas, family history, family trip, fathers, Federal Aid Highway Act, highway robbery, institutional racism, interstate highways, mom and pop stores, New Mexico, nieces, poverty, President Eisenhower, public accommodation, racial integration, Racism, Ralph Ellison, road diners, road trips, segregation, sharecroppers, shotgun shacks, small town life, social justice, Southern America, Texas, The Great Depression, the invisible man, the South, traveling during segregation, uncles, US Air Force, USAF

About My Sentence

February 24, 2013 By Spoon Jackson 1 Comment

Spoon Jackson, who has served 34 years of a life sentence in prison, faces the reality of his fate.

Filed Under: Poet Behind Bars, Prison, The Good Life Tagged With: artists, breaking up, California State Prison, Freedom, grace, hope, identity, institutional racism, loneliness, men in prison, parole, penitentiary, prison life, Prisoners, reality, relationships, solitude

Why Did Freddy E Do It? Black Men and Suicide

January 13, 2013 By Billy Johnson II 21 Comments

Why Black men are killing themselves, warning signs, and what to do if you’re worried about someone.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Health, Psych, & Addiction, Suicide, The Good Life Tagged With: addiction, African American men in therapy, African Americans and mental illness, African-Americans, aggression, alcoholism, American Association of Suicidology, anger, behavioral problems, black men, Black men and suicide, burden, call for help, Capital Steez, causes of suicide, Chris Lightly, cry for help, cultural insensitivity, death, Deion Sanders, depression, don cornelius, drug abuse, dying, emotional intelligence, emotions, entertainers, Freddy E, friends, giving up, grief, Gun Violence, guns, hypermasculinity, institutional racism, Jim Dobbins, Jovan Belcher, man code, masculinity, men's emotions, mental health, mental health professionals, murder-suicide, patriarchal values, psychology, sports, stigma, suicide, suicide statistics, taboo, Therapy

Are American Churches As Racist As My Mom?

January 2, 2013 By Gregory Stevens 10 Comments

Fear is what we feel, denial is what we do, and defensiveness is how we do it.

Filed Under: Featured Content, In Good Faith Tagged With: christianity, church, defensiveness, denial, evangelical, evangelicalism, family, fear, Greg Stevens, Gregory Stevens, guilt, institutional racism, mom, mother, orthopraxy, prejudice, privilege, race, Racism, racist, shame, White Privilege, white supremacy

An Education in Inequality

July 24, 2012 By Tim Brown 8 Comments

What Tim Brown has learned from the Penn State scandal about institutional racism.

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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.