Soul Man 1986

Directed by Steve Miner | Starring: C. Thomas Howell, Rae Dawn Chong, James Earl Jones, Melora Hardin

A caucasian prospective grad student's affluent family won't pay his way through law school, so he takes tanning pills to darken his skin in order to qualify for an African-American scholarship at Harvard. He soon gets more than he bargained for, as he begins to learn what life is really like for blacks in America.