ROBERT "BOB" E. LEE (1942-2017) was a longtime community organizer, social worker, storyteller, and artist. His columns on various aspects of the African American experience in East Texas and Houston appeared for eleven years in the Sunday Texas Magazine, published by the Houston Chronicle. He resided in the Kashmere Gardens neighborhood of Houston's Fifth Ward. MICHAEL BERRYHILL is professor and chair of journalism at Texas Southern University in Houston. He is the author of The Trials of Eroy Brown: The Murder Case That Shook the Texas Prison System. He lives in Houston.