Will James

He read all these, and some of them multiple times over.

When we would go to work, he would have any one of these in his pocket at any time, wherever we was at.

Antonio Sr.

runs a barbecue business.

My family's been barbecuing since before I was born.

And he was training his son to take over.

He'd be at home practicing slicing his onions Julianne-style.

Antonio Jr.

and his dad would go to farmer's markets and sell their handcrafted barbecue sauce.

My son came to life at those markets.

Like, they would hang out, have fun talking to customers, have fun talking to the other vendors.

There was one night when my son made 120 pounds of asparagus.

And he just had this cast iron skillet.

He would put it all together and he just made it over and over again, over and over again.

And it's flying out the window.

I'm like, my God, look at him go.

Antonio Sr.

told his son all about Black history.

I taught my son what it is to be Black in America.

He raised him with a deep understanding of the struggle for Black liberation.