In the early 70’s, there was this young man who grew up in Chicago’s Cabrini-Green housing project. His mother Ilene told him, “There has never, ever been a black writer in Hollywood. If they ever get one he's going to be some high-yellow black with a Harvard degree, not some high school dropout from Cabrini” […]
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