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An Ex-Con Helps Others Reintegrate
Julio Medina and Diana Ortiz: Good is where you find it. Julio Medina may not be everyone’s idea of a good man. His essay from The Good Men Project: Real Stories from the Front Lines of Modern Manhood...
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‘Can We Tell It Like It Really Happened?’: On Race and ‘The Scottsboro Boys’
Facing protests, Broadway production The Scottsboro Boys will close this Sunday. Tom Matlack argues that the show was misunderstood. When I was 8, while my classmates were learning their...
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Masking Our Powers
We are all flawed, but lurking within our humanity is heroism My 5-year-old has three black and one blue Batman outfits, which he wears everywhere—including our periodic visits to Gotham, where a...
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Helping Ex-Convicts Reintegrate
Juilo Medina knows how hard it is for an ex-convict to get work. He was one. As he wrote about in The Good Men Project: Real Stories from the Front Lines of Modern Manhood (buy it here), he spent time...
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Blood Spattered
An excerpt from The Good Men Project book: Julio Medina’s story. I shuffled into the Albany County courthouse, cuffed and shackled, to hear my sentence. My mom was there with my brothers and sisters....
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25 Years Up From Bottom
Lili Bee interviews a violent offender just released from Sing Sing, and talks about remorse, learning to see consequences, restorative justice, and goodness. This is the story of Juan, who as a young...
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MLK Day Question: Does Jim Crow Still Exist?
I was listening to legal scholar Michelle Alexander on Fresh Air to day and thinking about Martin Luther King, about my friend Julio Medina and his experience in Sing Sing, and about all that we have...
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#19: Sing Sing
#19: Sing Sing The first time I met Julio Medina, we sat in his office in Harlem and talked for several hours. That conversation became the essay, “Blood Splattered.” The second time I met him was at...
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Shootings, Manhood and Tragedy
Tom Matlack wonders what would make a teenage boy go into a school cafeteria and blow away three innocent kids he barely knows? I’ve spent the last three years talking to thousands of men, from Sing...
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Is it Time For a Woman President?
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. I don’t know about you but I’ve been trying to duck the whole...
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What Is a Good Man?
Tom Matlack finds that defining goodness is not science, it’s art. The further I get into this good men thing, the less I feel like I know. For quite a while now I have been committed to the idea that...
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Why Our Boys Need The Good Men Project
In the wake of the mass slaughter of innocent children, the inevitable news cycle has moved on from the event itself to the question of why? What possibly could lurk in the heart of a young man to...
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This Much I Know To Be True
Talking about the most difficult parts of manhood—like race, rape, addiction, parenting, porn, divorce, depression, guns, prison, war and suicide—have a way of stirring up great waves of controversy...
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What Is Good?
…pleasant, fine, competent, skilled, useful, adequate, reliable, untainted, kind, giving, well-behaved, authentic, real —Synonyms for “good” according to Thesarus.com …morally excellent; virtuous;...
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HLN: Julio Medina Giving Back to Inmates at Sing Sing (VIDEO)
How one ex-inmate is helping others have a second chance at life. Julio Medina served 12 years in New York’s notorious Sing Sing prison for drug trafficking. He was a kingpin, and a murderer, and not...
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Minister Makes Prison Reform his Mission
Hans Hallundbaek helps ex-felons re-enter society while raising vital questions about the prison system. ––– Croton Falls, New York As welcoming as it is for ex-felons to hear the doors of prison...
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An Ex-Con Helps Others Reintegrate
Julio Medina and Diana Ortiz: Good is where you find it.Julio Medina may not be everyone’s idea of a good man. His essay from The Good Men Project: Real Stories from the Front Lines of Modern Manhood...
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‘Can We Tell It Like It Really Happened?’: On Race and ‘The Scottsboro Boys’
Facing protests, Broadway production The Scottsboro Boys will close this Sunday. Tom Matlack argues that the show was misunderstood.When I was 8, while my classmates were learning their multiplication...
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Masking Our Powers
We are all flawed, but lurking within our humanity is heroismMy 5-year-old has three black and one blue Batman outfits, which he wears everywhere—including our periodic visits to Gotham, where a...
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