Brian L. Wright, The University of MemphisNathaniel Bryan, Miami UniversityChristopher J.P. Sewell, Williams CollegeLucian Yates III, Kentucky State UniversityMichael A. Robinson, Forest of the Rain ProductionsKianga Thomas, Norfolk State University

• Acknowledgments.Introduction.Section I. Familial Impact On Education.Chapter 1. Pushing for a Better Life; Wil Greer.Chapter 2. Choices; George Suttles.Chapter 3. Black Boy Rising; Larry J. Walker.Chapter 4. My Son Has a Purpose Too: A Father's Story of Autism; George E. Stewart II.Chapter 5. Where the Waters Met: A Story of Friendship, Brotherhood, and Service; Robert Mays.Chapter 6. Freedom of Forgiveness; Zaccheus L. Moss.Chapter 7. I Might Cry, But I'll Get There; MarQo D. Patton.Chapter 8. Personal Agency: An Under-Discussed Factor for Successful Life Outcomes of Black Males; Michael T. Owens.Chapter 9. Still Standing: Bumps in the Road Along a Path to Greater Success; Jason Rivera.Chapter 10. Poverty and Education; C. Sheldon Woods.Chapter 11. The Destruction of Drugs; Joel Bratton Jr.Section II. Intersections of Race, Gender, and Sexuality.Chapter 12. From Unseen to Seen: The Power of Significant Others; Derrick Robinson.Chapter 13. One Hundred Percent Intelligent Black Child: Black and Exceptional in Mathematics; Nickolaus A. Ortiz.Chapter 14. Of Pain and Peach Fuzz: A Chief Equity Officer Rants; John D. Marshall.Chapter 15. Thank You So Much for Asking; Darreon D. Greer Sr.Chapter 16. Things Fall Apart to Fall in Place; Jajuan S. Johnson.Chapter 17. The Menace of Immigrants: Reflections of Growing Up in Organisms Against My Development; Oscar Espinoza-Parra.Chapter 18. Be Yourself and the World Will Adjust; Tyrone C. Hamler.Chapter 19. Memoir of a Former Impostor; C. Emmanuel Little.Section III. Racial Discrimination.Chapter 20. What Was Intended for My Harm, God Intended for My Good: A Black Male Overcoming the Odds; Lucian Yates III.Chapter 21. Coming Home: The Social and Educational Consequences of Being a Formerly Incarcerated Chicano Convict Criminologist; Oscar Fabian Soto.Chapter 22. When I Woke Up to Being Black; Christopher J. P. Sewell.Chapter 23. The Power of Forgiveness; Joseph Matthews.Chapter 24. Stony the Road We Trod: Black Males Share Lived Experiences With Police Brutality; Antonio Ellis and Eddie Vanderhorst.Chapter 25. The Race; Dwight Gordon II.Chapter 26. A Black Man's Story of Empowerment: Why I Stopped Begging Whites to Accept My Blackness; Raymond Adams.Chapter 27. The Emanuel Church Massacre and the School Across the Street: A Black Man's Narrative of Two Racialized Conflicts; Nathaniel Bryan.Chapter 28. From Hopelessness to the Hallways of Higher Education; Lawrence Scott.Chapter 29. To Leave or Not to Leave: That Was My Contemplation; Jamel Miller.Section IV. Overcoming Narrative Of Failure.Chapter 30. Becoming the Victor; Victor L. Powell.Chapter 31. Overcoming the Obstacles and Breaking the Barriers; Jeremiah N. Taylor.Chapter 32. Man Enough to Ask for Help: Overcoming a Learning Disability and Family Issues; David C. Hughes.Chapter 33. For Special Educators Who Have Considered Giving Up When the Rainbow Is Enough: A Retrospective and Prospective Essay on Being a Black Male in Specialized Education; Brandon C. S. Wallace.Chapter 34. Special Education to Higher Education: Speech Impediment to a Degree in Speech Communications; Burgess Mitchell.Chapter 35. From a Refugee Child to Success in America; Alex Sekwat.Chapter 36. I Am Not Supposed to Be Here: Why Numbers Sometimes Lie; Stuart Rhoden.Chapter 37. Social Capital and Its Impact on My Personal and Academic Success; Solomon Tention.Chapter 38. Nobody Told Me the Road Would Be Easy; Dante Pelzer.Chapter 39. I'm Not My Chair; Michael S. Washington.Chapter 40. On Stuttering and Speech Impediments: Stepping Stones Not Speed Bumps; Charles A. Barrett.Chapter 41. Keeping My Head Above Water in a River of Whiteness; LaMarcus J. Hall.Chapter 42. Rising Above a Tracked System; Brian K. Williams.Chapter 43. Even Today I Remember the Pain; Gregory Washington.Chapter 44. The Test of a Man; Verontae Deams.Chapter 45. Rising Through the Concrete Like a Rose; Nathan Stephens.Chapter 46. Akoben: The Ancestors' Call; Mwalimu Donkor Issa Minors.Section V. Sexual And Substance Abuse.Chapter 47. Forged by My Foundation; Michael A. Robinson.Chapter 48. Alone Was My Safe Place; Raphael Crawford.Chapter 49. Won't He Do It ...: From Challenges to Triumphs; Derek Irvin.Chapter 50. From Victim to Victor: I Don't Want to Play!; Robert A. Massey.Chapter 51. Learning to Overcome Excessive Drinking; Charles Brown III.Section VI. Experiences In Higher Education.Chapter 52. How Spirit and Soul Led Me to a Life as a Psychological Scientist; Brandon E. Gamble.Chapter 53. Do Not Apply to College; Eugene Pitchford III.Chapter 54. Challenging Transitions: Reflecting Back, Projecting Forward; Brian A. Burt.Chapter 55. Epilogue.About the Editors.About the Contributors.