It was my father's dream to escape the strongholds of poverty and to defy the world's dismal expectations of him as a Black man in America. It was his dream that by pure circumstance I came to adopt it as my own. I wasn't perfect and made multiple mistakes along the way. But through me the beauty of my father's dream has been reborn, and through these pages it is my hope that it lives forever.
It was my father's dream to escape the strongholds of poverty and to defy the world's dismal expectations of him as a Black man in America. It was his...
