Unfortunately, Black people in America are considered structurally futureless (Lothian 2018), meaning the Black population is disadvantaged across social and governmental systems making their future outcomes less favorable than their white peers. Yet, Black people continue to invest in their own futurity, imagining a way forward. Current discussions involving Black futurism relates to literary fiction, but little has been researched on the futures everyday Black people imagine for themselves. A new concept in describing individual futures, the five dimensions of futures-consciousness (Ahvenharju, Minkkinen, and Lalot 2018), offers an opportunity for rhetoricians to analyze the language people use when imagining their futures. Seizing this opportunity, this dissertation explores the individual futures of undergraduates who invest in the future through higher education. A total of five participants, Chartreuse, Purple, Vaughn, Terra, and Hunter, contribute interviews where they imagine themselves one and five years in the future. This study shares participant experiences as examples of the futures Black students are creating for themselves, how imagination might correlate with verbal cues, and finally, how their described futures might fit within the five dimensions of futures-consciousness. A Black feminist framework maintains transparency of the power dynamics of research. Participants were invited to complete a follow-up interview where they could edit or expand their previous answers. Transcripts were analyzed with feminist listening to create codes in a grounded theory method. And lastly, each chapter of this dissertation opens with a reflection, juxtaposing the researcher against the researched. The results of this dissertation feature thick descriptions of participant transcripts, utilizing complete utterances of their responses to interview questions. The results discover a correlation between hedging and imagination as participants utilize more hedging when they imagine farther into the future or when they have to imagine a response to a novel consideration. Additionally, the results discover that someone's worldview may inform which of the five dimensions of futures-consciousness are easiest to access. Ultimately, this work offers fruitful possibilities for rhetoricians to bring our expertise of language into discussions of futurism and racial justice with implications for the composition classroom, university, and field. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://bibliotheek.ehb.be:2222/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.]