The author commends Drs. Bemak, Chung, and Siroskey-Sabdo on their efforts to connect with and empower African American adolescent females. However, he does have some concerns regarding their Empowerment Groups for Academic Success (EGAS) approach to empowering this particular group of students. While he agrees with the authors about the challenges that urban schools face with regard to providing a culturally responsive and quality education to culturally diverse and low-income students, he also believes that urban schools are not alone in these challenges. For example, rural schools also struggle with providing culturally responsive and quality education to culturally diverse and low-income students. While the incidents of violence, drug use, teen pregnancy, and delinquency may be higher in urban areas, these very same problems interfere with the educational process for young people all across the country regardless of their location (urban vs. rural).