Soul Man (1986)

"Soul Man" is a 1986 Comedy movie directed by Tom Scott and starring by C. Thomas Howell, Rae Dawn Chong. A white 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.