The Great Depression — The Good Men Project

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

What Was The Most Profound Change In 75 Years? A Son Asks His Father.

September 30, 2012 By Ken Goldstein 8 Comments

Ken Goldstein and his father discuss all the changes of the past 75 years to get at the one that mattered most.

Filed Under: Ethics & Values, Featured Content Tagged With: 1937, 75 years, ATM's, Barak Obama, Brooklyn Dodgers, Cesar Chavez, change, civil rights, commercial air flight, Edward R Murrow, Elvis, father, gender rights, human rights, ICBms, iPhones, John F. Kennedy, Levittown, Lone Ranger, McDonald's, progress, radio, separate but equal, son, stock market crash, television, the beatles, The Great Depression, Think Different, UFW, WWI, WWII

JP Morgan Chase Loses $2 Billion – Here We Go Again

May 14, 2012 By Mark Greene 4 Comments

Mark Greene wonders: If JPMorgan Chase can lose $2 Billion in just a few weeks, is another collapse on the scale of 2008 banking disaster looming?

Filed Under: Good Feed Blog Tagged With: Banking Collapse, banking reform, Consumer Protection Act, Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform, Glass Steagall, Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, Huffington post, Jamie Dimon, JP Morgan Chase, Mark Greene, Meet the Press, Paul Volcker, Phil Gramm, President Clinton, The Great Depression, The Volcker Rule, Wikipedia

The Greatest Generation

April 14, 2012 By Christopher Hutton Leave a Comment

We can find the ultimate example of the Good Generation in the Greatest Generation.

Filed Under: Historical Perspectives on Goodness, The Good Life Tagged With: education, GI Bill, The Good Life, The Great Depression, The Greatest Generation, World War II

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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.