Real men.
Real paths.
Men from Champaign-Urbana telling the truth about how they made it. Films for the next up.
The Series
All 30 men →Short documentary films. Black men from Champaign-Urbana, each telling how he built his life, including the parts that usually get left out. New films are added as they're made.
Champaign County Redeploy Initiative
Courage Connection
Associate dean at the U of I who grew up ten blocks north of the quad
Structural engineer, the first in his family to hold a college degree
Counselor at Urbana High with a doctorate and a caseload of 300 kids
IBEW journeyman who's wired job sites from Green Street to the south farms
Shorts
YouTube →Somebody from here already did it.
These aren't celebrities. They're men who sat in the same classrooms, played in the same parks, and figured out a way. Each film is the real story, no filter. Watch one. Then look at the path he took and what's waiting for you on it.
Why this exists