The Journal of Minority Achievement, Creativity and Leadership (JMACL) is a window seat, an intellectual space for academics, policymakers, practitioners, researchers, students, and scholars to view the terrain in its variegated form and structure, especially those extant landmarks positioned at the intersection of achievement, creativity, and leadership. JMACL attempts to provide rhythmic syncopation to the cacophony of voices speaking to the complexities that diverse populations in general, and minoritized populations in particular, experience across the P–20 educational continuum and beyond. Through their collective and individual wisdom, contrib utors share best practices, conceptual models, and theoretical frameworks that illuminate asset-based approaches related to the achievement and success of minority populations. In this issue our authors include:
Sharon LaVonne Fries Britt, PhD, and Felicia Onuma, in “The Role of Family, Race, and Community as Sources of Motivation for Black Students in STEM,” argue that understanding the sources of motivation that...