Soul Man

Soul Man is a movie starring C. Thomas Howell, Rae Dawn Chong, and Arye Gross. To achieve his dream of attending Harvard, a pampered teen poses as a young black man to receive a full scholarship.
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.