For this Father’s Day, BET.com wants to share the stories of three different father relationships, in their own words, to provide a more expanded view of modern-day Black Tuesday, May 26, 2020, Smith Raoul buried his father.

They will all commemorate this Father's Day as the first without their family's patriarch.

In the midst of his own grief, now, Raoul has to figure out how to stand in place of his father – small in stature, but larger than life – and carry his family through their mourning in the midst of the pandemic.

In his words, here is Smith Raoul’s declaration of gratitude to his beloved father.

If there is anything, any one lesson, I can take from my father, it is that family is everything and because of that we are going to do everything we can to stand together in his absence.