Earl Young was a 30-year-old African American man trying hard to build a new life for himself on Chicago's South Shore, a father who had gone from being a parentless high school dropout to an honor student, basketball star and prom king at Sullivan House High School, an alternative school for at-risk kids. At Sullivan he found mentors who pushed him toward college and helped him discover he could be more than the troubled boy he had been; he even earned a basketball scholarship to a small colleg
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