Dr. Heron was, and remains, one of the Black Men in the United States that has formed me as a human, a person and a man. At the top of this list is, of course, my father. But, there are others: My two uncles (Earl and June), Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, Huey Newton, Bobby Seale, Nat Turner, Ralph Ellison, Langston Hughes and a few more that dispel the myth …
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