The authors set out to organize a small convening of educator-researcher teams from across seven districts engaged in My Brother's Keeper (MBK) efforts. Their goals were to gather a small enough number of participants to ensure deep conversation in a convening long enough to foster authentic connections among us, and to include mechanisms to sustain these conversations long past the convening itself. This issue of "Voices in Urban Education" is a product of that convening and their aspirations to advance the conversation around better serving young men of color, while also providing a framework for understanding this work, a set of concrete strategies to make it come alive in schools and classrooms, and a lens to examine its effectiveness over time.