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Success in Carrera's program brings a substantial reward. Under an agreement made with former Hunter College President Donna Shalala, students who graduate from high school and complete Carrera's program are guaranteed admission to Hunter. So far, 15 participants, teens and parents, have enrolled; Shavon Glover, a mother at 15, before she met Carrera, was the first. "I always had college in the back of my mind, but I didn't think I could do it," Glover says. "When I met Mike, everything started lifting...
Born to a working-class family in a rough part of Washington, Kenneth Glover thinks he was lucky to get out alive. "One-third of the friends I grew up with are dead," he says. "Another third are in jail or on dope. The rest of us just made it." He did more than just make it. A magna cum laude graduate of the University of Maryland, the Chicago investment counselor recently co- founded the Harold Washington Foundation. Named for the late Chicago mayor whom Glover once served as campaign manager, it provides grants to blacks for education, health care...
DEAD MAN OUT (HBO, March 12, 10 p.m. EST). A prison psychiatrist (the ubiquitous Danny Glover) tries to help an incorrigible death-row inmate in this heavy-hitting drama...
...dancing opens with a traditional tap challenge, each man showing his best stuff in turn. Savion Glover, 15, who enacted The Tap Dance Kid on Broadway in 1983, is predictably upstaged by such snowy-haired hoofers as Bunny Briggs, Lon Chaney and Ralph Brown. Glover reappears in a breakneck gymnastic number, hopping up and down stairs, while his elders return in slow, sentimental sequences to demonstrate the traditional tap presumption that less can be more. That is in contrast to the basic notion of Black and Blue, which seems to be that more is more. Yet in the understated moments...
...viewers will get the chance to judge for themselves next month, when CBS broadcasts Motown's first mini-series, the eight-hour Lonesome Dove. Starring Robert Duvall, Anjelica Huston and Danny Glover, the series is based on Larry McMurtry's best-selling 1985 novel about a 19th century cattle drive. The epic will air on four consecutive nights, starting...