Smith said his father Abram ... Prior to his death, Daniel was working with author Sana Butler to write a memoir titled Son of a Slave: A Black Man's Journey in White America, according to ...

But while researching her book “Sugar of the Crop ... who died in a car accident when Daniel Smith was 6 — that he developed a fierce pride and resilience that he carried into his work ...

People aren't governments. And so Daniel Smith's entire point was to unite ground-level urban cultures in nations that are politically or officially separated.

All of them have since died, and while Daniel Smith was not featured in her book, Butler later met him and helped edit his upcoming memoir, “Son of a Slave: A Black Man’s Journey in White ...