How one ex-inmate is helping others have a second chance at life.
What Is Good?
January 12, 2013 By 6 Comments
Goodness is a thing that we each have to define for ourselves and set out for with an open mind and a strong heart.
This Much I Know To Be True
December 31, 2012 By 50 Comments
Despite the fact that manhood has become a third rail of modern society, I refuse to stop talking about it.
Why Our Boys Need The Good Men Project
December 18, 2012 By 15 Comments
We need to love our boys so they learn the power of their own love as husbands, fathers and men.
What Is a Good Man?
October 1, 2012 By 7 Comments
With quotes from friends and famous folks alike, Tom Matlack finds that defining goodness is not science, it’s art.
Is it Time For a Woman President?
August 27, 2012 By 47 Comments
Tom Matlack looks at the mess we’ve made of American politics and wonders if it isn’t time to step aside and elect a female president.
Shootings, Manhood and Tragedy
February 29, 2012 By 11 Comments
Tom Matlack wonders what would make a teenage boy go into a school cafeteria and blow away three innocent kids he barely knew.
I’ve Been to Sing Sing. Have you?
February 6, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Can inmates join the movement towards becoming good men?
#19: Sing Sing
January 19, 2012 By 6 Comments
“Why did he go back into the dungeon where he had experienced such suffering?”
MLK Day Question: Does Jim Crow Still Exist?
January 16, 2012 By 7 Comments
How do we try to explain “Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindnes”?
25 Years Up From Bottom
October 6, 2011 By 5 Comments
Lili Bee interviews a violent offender just released from Sing Sing, and talks about remorse, learning to see consequences, restorative justice, and goodness.
Blood Spattered
October 3, 2011 By 15 Comments
An excerpt from The Good Men Project book: Julio Medina’s story.
Helping Ex-Convicts Reintegrate
April 26, 2011 By 1 Comment
Good Men Project contributor Juilo Medina knows how hard it is for an ex-convict to get work. He was one.
Masking Our Powers
December 11, 2010 By 4 Comments
We are all flawed, but lurking within our humanity is heroism.
‘Can We Tell It Like It Really Happened?’: On Race and ‘The Scottsboro Boys’
December 7, 2010 By 26 Comments
Facing protests, Broadway production “The Scottsboro Boys” will close this Sunday. Tom Matlack argues that the show was misunderstood.
An Ex-Con Helps Others Reintegrate
October 7, 2010 By 6 Comments
Julio Medina and Diana Ortiz: Good is where you find it.
“Straight men learned from gay men that physically affectionate, emotionally intimate friendships are not unmanly.”
These are comments by David May and Rick on the post “For The Love Of God, Please Stop Saying ‘Bromance’”.