Step Out on Nothing

It was August 25, 2006, my first on-camera studio open for the CBS News broadcast 60 Minutes . Executive Producer Jeff Fager poked his head in the dressing room." Good luck, Brotha! You've come a long way to get here. You've earned it." …If only he knew. My mind flashed back to elementary school, when a therapist had informed my mother, "I'm sorry, Mrs. Pitts, your son cannot read." In Step Out on Nothing , Byron Pitts chronicles his astonishing story of overcoming a childhood filled with obstac