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Now in paperback, a powerful, thought-provoking, and heartfelt look at what it takes (and takes and takes) for two Black students to succeed in prestigious academic institutions in America.In All You Have to Do, two young Black men attend prestigious schools nearly thirty years apart, yet both navigate similar forms of insidious racism.In April 1968, in the wake of Martin Luther King, Jr.''s assassination, Kevin joins a protest that shuts down his Ivy League campus . . .In September 1995, amid controversy over the Million Man March, Gibran challenges the ?See No Color? hypocrisy of his prestigious New England prep school . . .As the two students, whose lives overlap in powerful ways, risk losing the opportunities their parents worked hard to provide, they move closer to discovering who they want to be instead of accepting as fact who society and family tell them they are.