It's early evening and several men are making their way, alone or in twos or threes, to the community room at the Jordan Downs public housing complex. This building looks like everything else here: squat, rectangular, painted boring, government-regulation beige. But what's going on inside is pretty exciting.
It's Wednesday night, and Project Fatherhood is in session.
As always, it opens with a prayer, led by Elder Michael Cummings, known to most everyone as Big Mike. A towering man with a shaved head and sharply observant eyes, Big Mike asks for God's guidance in their work and for protection for the neighborhood's young people.
[For more of this story, written by Karen Grigsby Bates, go to http://www.npr.org/sections/co...ads-are-helping-dads]
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