person. that's all i was looking for, one "yes," and i got it. and for me, that's what i bring. i'm going to play hard until i win. there are 100 families here, 100 different people, and somehow someway i got this chance? i'm the one in a position to open a school and provide them an tuned? i'm not pulling up the bridge behundred dollars me, i'm strengthening it, undergirding it, doing what i can do to make sure that bridge can be more easily traveled by more people. when we come back -- >> you sound really anxiousry. >> i am angry. >> what makes steve perry so mad.

with little responsibility, zero accountability. our parents telling us what to do... how to behave. now, all of a sudden, we're there, in that role, at that time in our lives where everyone and everything is depending on us. it's a scary feeling, but it's also a good one. especially when i'm confident someone's there for me.

in a perfect world -- >> no one would dare tell me -- >> you're too young to understand. >> when in fact. >> in fact i understand anger. >> i understand pain. >> i understand hope. >> i understand change. >> as it turns out, i'm not too young after all. it's before dawn, and principal steve perry is already on the job. >> what's up, sleeping beauty? okay. i'll be there in 15 minutes. >> some quick good-byes to his wife and sons, and he's out the door.

>> i wake up at 4:45 in the morning and i drive kids to school. >> you take kids to school? >> i do. >> you pick them up? >> every day. >> why? you're the principal. >> i'm the bus driver in the morning, though. if you walk the has, i'm picking up papers, i'm the cuss to doia. you dot what you got to do to get it done. >> and perrys students are getting it done. >> what's up, chief. >> connecticut has one of the largest gaps in the country. black students on average are three grade levels behind white students, but every day perry and the students at capital prep defy the numbers. >> after you fin, it's all said for you. >> students like 18-year-old glorias menefee. >> i want to succeed, i want to make it. at the end of the day it's about me and my goals, my determination, my success, what i want to make my life out to be. >> love you. >> glorias is a high school

senior, a solid b student, a cheerleader, peer tutor, and plays on the lacrosse team, here in downtown hartford at capital preparatory magnet school. >> good morning, good morning, what's up, party people? >> today is a school science fair, a real feat, considering the school doesn't have science labs. >> they look like them. we have the stools and the long tables, we don't have any water in them. >> no bunsen burners? >> no, no bunsen burners. i think i saw somebody with a match, though. >> i'm laughing, but it's dire. how do you do science with no science equipment? >> i don't know, but we do it. teachers are willing to figure out another way to get it done. >> so those are examples. >> it's public school funding with a prep school attitude. the school is highly sought after. this years there are 2,000 kids on the waiting list, hoping to be picked for one of capital

prep's 40 available seats. 40 seats in the entire 6th through 12th agreed school. once in, many of the students will have a lot of catches up to do. >> many are reading three, four grade levels below. it's even more compelling when you look at a child that comes in four grade levels below and they're a ninth grader. that means we have four years to get them to college. for years to get them to college. >> have you had students come in reading at ninth graders at a fourth grade level and you sent them to college? >> yeah. >> my numbers increase, right? >> steve perry is convinced that successful schools like capital prep can be the norm, but he believes that can only happen with motivated teachers. >> open your books to page 102, please. >> we don't have the time to send our children to short school years so people can vacation. our children need more education, not less. they need schools that are more compelling, not less.

they need teachers who care more, not less, and we know that education is the great equalizer. >> our children not getting the parts. >> and his frustration isn't just with the teachers. >> i'm trying to run a school. i sure could use more parents at the pto meetings. we should be in a situation where we have 270 students, we have at least 540 parents there. >> how many did you get? >> on a good night? >> yes. >> 25? >> you sound really angry. >> i am angry. for sure i'm angry. do you understand what i'm giving up every single day? >> for other people's children? >> i see them as my children. hello. come on, got to go. here, arms, arms, arms. all right. ready? >> tonight is a typical night for steve perry. >> oh, man. >> picking up his two sons mason

and walker. >> you didn't see me wake you up this morning? >> meeting his wife lalani so she can take them home. >> love you. >> then on to the football game to support his other kids. >> good luck, sir. >> do your parents do enough? >> no. no, they don't. what really hurts me is when we have senior night and i look up into the stands and most of the adults i see are faculty members. >> run, michael, run! go the, go, go. >> perry is used to the empty stands, and so is glorias. >> kids look to him to be the fatherly figure. you know your mom and dad are not in the stands, but there's mr. perry, the principal. >> at one point school was the last thing on glorias menefee's mind. by age 15, she was considering dropping out. then she enrolled in capital

prep. >> before capital prep, my main focus was getting out of the house, getting my ged, getting an apartment and just going. >> she wanted out from a home where her parents' addictions meant chaos. >> i joked around and said i had the best of both worlds, meaning i had a mom who was a drugs user and a dad who was an alcoholic. >> glor crass' mom susan was on crack. >> i used crack cocaine for 11 years. 11 years, 11 horrible years. in the beginning it was recreational thing, a suppression thing, and then it became a way of life for me. >> susan went to prison when glorias was just 14. >> i always felt alone, always felt no one understood me. all the these mixed emotions was being without my mom, so it is definitely a fear at times, but

you just learn to kind of accept it and just go on, move on. >> glorias and her younger brother cory were left to be raised by their grandmother who worked full time and their father ernie, whose drinking increased and whose temper grew worse. >> i was what you would refer to as a verbal abuser as far as when my drinking would happen. if i became upset, that one time i thought my kids didn't like me because of my drinking. a lot of times my kids would tell me things that i said to them that i really didn't remember saying, and i think that was more hurtful than anything. >> when my dad is sober, you see how much of a great person he could be. and in a split second, or within an hour, you see this ugly side

of him, and that's the hardest part, maintaining and juggling that emotion, like how do i approach him? >> i often say to the children you have to play hurt. you want to sit and cry? then when you're done crying, guess what will happen? nothing. nothing's going to change, but you and i can work on something that's going to change it. >> steve perry and glorias have been working toward this moment since she first entered capital's doors. her first college interview. >> focus on what you have to offer. you're a hard workers, you're a considerate person and you'll take very seriously your study of social work. >> okay. >> now it's all up to glorias. >> hi, how are you? nice to meet you. >> nice to meet you. >> nice to meet you, too. next, glorias' fate is

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i'm going to interview you, ask you some questions. >> glorias menefee is nervous. >> okay. >> she's in her first college interview and the outcome could change her life. >> i had a lot to say about the struggles that i have gone through throughout the years while attending capital prep. >> what program are you thinking about going into? do you have any idea? >> social work. >> social work, and why are you choosing that path in your life, social work? what is drawing you to that? >> because of a personal experience. social workers were in and out

of my life all my life basically. when i'm looking back on it and realizing a lot of things, they actually were there to help me. i consider them saviors. social workers are savior. >> how so? >> they were very hopeful. just looking at them was kind of, someone cares. >> hope she wants to share with others. >> you have that passion. >> definitely, yeah. i want to work with children and families. >> well, good for you. i'm going to take a moment with summer. >> would you like me to step out? >> yes, if you could, please. >> and then we'll bring you back in and see what we can do. >> thank you. thank you so very much. >> now all glorias menefee can do -- >> oh, gosh. >> -- is wait. >> i need this. i need to get in. i hope i get in.

i've worked hard. >> glorias peeks inside and sees her college counselor meeting with the post's staff. for glorias, the wait seems forever. >> oh, gosh, you know. oh, i'm going to cry. oh, man. >> okay. you're going to go back in. they're going to ask you a couple more questions. i want you to be completely honest with them, as honest as you and i know about you and your situation, and they'll go from there. >> okay. >> i love your shadow. >> yeah, i'm okay. >> you're not going to pass out on me? >> no, no, no. >> a couple more questions. >> and a few more questions about why her glaze dropped during her sophomore year. >> okay. sophomore year, that is when the

physical abuse kind of started and took its toll from my dad, from his alcohol abuse. >> it took a toll on your school -- >> on everything. >> i intercepted a blow from my dad. >> abuse glorias wrote about when applying to college. >> it was to me a normal thing. dad drunk and my brother and i trying to avoid him, which seemed almost impossible. he pounded us with insults, intimidation and then the fight. i grabbed the phone and called 911. >> despite desperately wanting to leave her home, the bond she shared with her brother cory kept glorias there. >> i'll never forget the promise i made to my brother that day, i will always be there to protect him. >> i'm going out on a limb here. i'm going to give you an accept. we're going to make it happen

for you. >> okay. >> okay? don't get upset or i'm going to get emotional. >> oh, gosh, thank you. >> congratulations. >> thank you so very much. >> all right. oh, man. wh whew. oh, man. o. oh, then gefb me a way out.

[ laughter ] >> for glorias, this is a dream come true. for principal steve perry, this is his job. >> you can't cry, it will mess up my clothes. >> yeah, i won't cry. >> anymore. >> anymore. oh, it's great. >> call your mother. >> call my mom. >> mom, guess what? i got in. okay. i'm getting ready. >> this is it. the day you waited for so long. i love you. i'm so proud of you. >> love you too, dad. >> get yourself ready before your mother has a panic attack.

>> today the menefees are reunited as a family. >> what time's the ceremony? >> 6:00. >> do you ever feel you have to push your parents out of your way to be successful? >> a lot of the times i do, and it's hard. it's like i want my mom there, i've had most of my childhood without her, so it's like now i want her there, but i kind of have to have my own path. >> glorias ashley menefee. >> in addition to post university, glorias was accepted to three other colleges. >> i'm very proud of you. [ cheers and applause ] >> glorias! >> it is now my distinct honor to tell you to turn your tassels. >> glorias menefee is part of

capital prep's legacy of sending 100% of its graduates on to college, 100% of every class every year. >> southern connecticut state university. >> delaware state university. >> loy controla college. >> post university. >> american university. >> and i'm going to central connecticut state university. when we come back, they're privileged and well connected. >> one of my teachers in my class actually called my a nigger. >> but money is no shield from racism. welcome to our mcdonald's.

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i'm a black teenager. >> and i have something to say. >> i'm only young right now. >> i'm only a child, today. >> but soon i'll be a leader in this world. >> soon i'll be writing this story. >> i may look like a child. >> but my mind is so much more. this is black america.

and this is black america. >> i'm very aware and conscious of my color in society. >> bertram lee is a freshman at haferford college, in haferford, the school boasts four nobel laureates, and students play croquet on manicured lawns. in a student body of nearly 1,200, there are 98 blacks. even in this idyllic setition, lee feels the tensions of race in america. >> sometimes you don't wear a hat straight like a baseball cap, and they say, don't be offended, are you like a thug? what? i look like carlson banks. >> his grandfather was a judge, his late father co-owned the denver nugget. his mother is a top lobbyist on capitol hill. lee says she instilled in him a

love for his race. >> black is beautiful, man. people don't say that enough. >> bertram lee is black and affluent in america. he says that means he straddles two worlds and two sets of expectations. from blacks he hears -- >> you're a rich boy, you don't understand anything about what we go through or what the struggle it. >> and from whites -- >> you're either an affirmative action case or here because you're playing a sport. >> dr. carlotta myles has known him all his life, a renown psychiatrist in washington, d.c. do you think most americans have no clue that privileged, wealthy, well-connected black people exist in decent size numbers? >> we're invisible. >> why? >> because we don't match the stereotype. the stereotype for black

americans is poverty, failure, victimization and immediate yolkyol immediate yolkrity. >> she emphasizes the hall covered with photographs dating back to the 1850s. >> that's my dad, and his colleagues. these are all doctors, and that's grandpa henry. basically they made a fortune before the civil war. this is my beloved, beloved grandmother. these people all had graduate degrees at the time when most people didn't have a college degree. >> achievements made despite the racism that existed then and now. >> this was our 23rd year. >> 23 years ago dr. myles created the tuxedo ball.

>> nice to see you again. >> a place for privileged black children to mingle and make professional connections. bertram lee believes it will help his future political career. >> you could find yourself a job, internships, opportunity, advice. you're talking to people who generally are amazing at what they do. they're successful. it's so hard to find that, especially being out in the world. >> you have to be black and you have to be wealthy. >> you don't have to be wealthy. you just have to be a part of the group. >> affairs like these exclude many, says darren walker, a vice president at the rockefeller foundation. he's spent his career studying race. >> many people in the african-american community react angrily, because one part of our community seems quite

comfortable adopting the exclusive practices of the majority community that for many years kept us out. >> i don't think the tuxedo ball should be vilified. it's doing something for the privileged children who people think don't need anything. what they see is exclusion. what they see is elitism. >> most of them are tremendously active doing things for needy children as well. >> that afternoon before the gala, there are several seminars. >> if i don't believe in myself, how do i convince you to be my girlfriend? how do i get a job? >> in a seminar called "pathways to leadership" bertram lee spoke about his elite new england high school. >> we had many issue with his diversity. one of my teachers in my class

actually called my a nigger in class. >> he said, mom, there was an incident, one of the teachers used the "n" word in the classroom. >> lee's mother, laura murphy was hurt. >> the sense of anguish you feel when your child has that hurt sound in his voice, and i was really pleased when he told me that he was going to organize a forum at the headmaster's house. >> what's the lesson in that? >> do something. do you let it in? do you let them tell you who you are? no. >> that evening, the big event. it's a magical night with historic precedence, from dubois, to carlotta buffy gordon, now known as dr. myles.

affluent blacks have been passing on the legacy of success for well over 100 years. >> what the tuxedo ball reminds me personally is that you cannot settle for mediocrity. ♪ that's what friends are for >> we mobilize our kids to go out and make a difference. >> my idea of blackness may not be what society says or what other people say blackness is. i can't help that i was born in the place that i was born in. i can only hope to make the world a better place from that. coming up, she owns a home, a car and makes $77,000 a year. why is she walking away from it all and taking the risk of a lifetime? sfloo man: it seems, only a minute ago, we were kids

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job. this is about changing the game. >> meaa jackson is joined by 200 others, poised, clad in business attire. >> i am tired of people thinking that black and brown people cannot change the world. >> boot camp.

three, long, hard, stressful days. >> probably the trying day of my little life. >> and night. >> we have to leave at 6:15 tomorrow to get on a bus. >> what? >> fortune 500 companies across manhattan, where mia jackson will be closely watched and scrutinized. >> you have to always shine, always got to be on. >> mia lives in atlanta, georgia. by any measure, she's a success, at 26 she owns a home, a car, and earns $77,000 a year as an engineer. >> i knew that an engineering degree was going to be financially stable when i got out of college. >> chemical engineering is the most versatile out of all the engineering disciplines. >> she's a project manager at a chemical manufacturing company with over half a million in revenue. >> being young and a woman on top of that, sometimes it's rough in the beginning.

>> step back. >> just try to go demand the respect i think i deserve. working at zep, i've had a lot of great opportunities. >> but she's also experienced roadblocks and frustration. >> i couldn't see what my next step was, and i had no one to help me see it. that's what was challenging. >> you were worried? >> i didn't want to get pigeon-how old as that engineer, and stay doing project management my whole life. >> in taking charges of her own career, mia jackson is making the riskiest move of her life. >> i'm quitting my job, i'm quitting, you know, having income, and in two years, maybe we'll still be struggle as an economy. >> she's about to walk away from everything she has for an 1846-month program created by this man, john rice. >> we have underrepresentation in minorities in corporate america in the nonprofit world.

yes, we do, we need to solve that. >> sir? how are you? how is everything going? >> rice is creating a new generation of leaders by preparing mia jackson and others for top executive positions. consider this -- in the 54-year history of the fortune 500, there have only been 13 black ceos. is it racism? >> no, at this point it's not. there are pockets of discrimination, so forth, but this is a more subtle, more challenging i think to address. >> the challenges -- blacks need access to mentors, connections. >> nice to meet you. >> and business skills not taught in the classroom. >> you really need to think about whether the skills, relationships will enable you to have a compelling story. >> most people think come in early, stay late, keep focused is 90%. >> the math is way off. >> 50/50? >> not even 50/50. it's probably 80/30 or 80/20,

key ingredients versus what you learn in the classroom. >> john rice began learning these ingredients early on. his father emmitt was the governor of the federal research system. >> he told me, you know, i learned that you have to have economic power to change the world. my favorite pictures of johnny -- >> his mother lois was a corporate executive. she passed on this lesson about being black in america. >> i raised my children to understand that you can never use race as an excuse, nor should you ever use it as an advantage. >> today john's sister, susan rice, is u.s. ambassador to the united nations. he was an executive with the nba, but left to serve others in his innovative organization, management leadership for tomorrow. mlt teaches a series of prescribed steps. step one -- know your story.

>> introduce yourself, talk to us, who are you? convince this group that you have the juice. >> step two -- articulate your goals and passion. >> i'm "new york post" passion about empowerering others. >> a networking opportunity. >> and step three -- build important relationships. >> we want to get to know you. >> so you want to be an entrepreneur. >> that's what mia jackson has been doing for the past 18 months in mlt's mba prep program. she was one last hurdle. when we return, the stress and the pressure of boot camp.

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mia jackson is determined to reach the top of corporate america, but first she must make a drastic career move. you own a house? >> yes. >> you own a car? >> yes. >> you have some bills? >> oh, yeah. >> you are quitting your job. >> yes. >> in a down economy. aren't you taking a giant risk? >> this is definitely a giant risk, but i'm excited about it, and i'm ready for the next challenge. >> one final challenge before mia's mlt journey ends. four rigorous days in the rain,

around-ed-clock training in consulting, entrepreneurship and investment banks where mia must quickly digest information she's never studies. >> equity capital markets. >> then present business recommendations to top corporations. first an introduction to the company. >> it starts with a strong brand position. >> next, marketing 101. mia makes an impression. >> it's the same orange juice you were making yesterday, you are just marketing it to a different consumer? >> great question. >> today's challenge, in 90 short minutes, create a new, organic product, along with a marketing strategy. teams will be judged on invasion, creativity, and how

they targets the consumer. >> i was thinking about ice cream sandwiches. >> ice cream-based dessert, like a layer of fruit? >> who are we targeting? >> always back to a woman. in property motion, you can always leverage the targets member. >> but mia and a teammate don't agree on a strategy. >> we should be specification on who we're marketing it, too. >> don't you think -- let's say this was a real product, we're going to lose some leverage? now we have this specific one person that can buy it. >> who's right? the judges will decide. >> no wiggle room. i'm going to do a time check. >> mia's team is losing precious time. >> soy -- >> and still needs to name their ice cream sandwich. >> like a play on ice cream? >> the theory is this high-level exposure will make mia more

competitive in graduate school and in life. >> the corporations that recruit our folks are setting a very high bar for excellence. we have to work them to that bar. it's natural for them to meet that bar and exceed it. >> this is what we've got. anything else we need to add while we've got five seconds? >> it's time to present. >> one little snack, energize for the day. >> and all mba prep fellows have one thing on their mind. >> we're targeting the heavy hitters. >> winning. >> i think we're all time a personalities here. >> i think we came up with a new product that will shock the market. >> our product is called sweet retre retreat. next, does mia jackson have the right stuff? >> we want to focus on this is all-natural fruit.

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it's taken mia jackson guts and hundreds of hours of preparation to get to the last stages of her management leadership for tomorrow program, and to this moment. >> so our product is called sweet retreat. it's for the health-conscious professional woman and we want her to give it to her children and have them have a healthy snack. >> her team is facing the scrutiny of judges from pepsico,

a potential employer. >> how are you going to balance tastes getting very much for her. >> we want to focus on all-natural fruit. >> part of it is positioning it well. >> the concept of ice cream, i think they're going to love it. >> group 1's presentation is over. now they must watch and wait while six other groups present their products. >> hey, i'm la ticka and christina, and it's just for me. >> it's all natural, it's so good i'm only going to drink half of it. >> the judges meet behind closed doors. >> the sweet retreat group, what did you think about that? >> i almost wish they had focused on just the woman. >> it was a good idea. >> i think i'm between 1 and 2. >> me too. >> i they what it came down to was who understood the consumer. we thought group 2 did that the best.

>> i was disappointed. i think we did well as a team. >> john rice has told me he likes scrappy. >> yes. >> so what's scrappy? and are you scrappy? >> i think i am scrappy, and i think it's having that tenacity that nothing is going to get in your way and you're going to be determined to achieve your goals. >> mlt is the number one source of minority candidates for several corporations, partnering with top companies like goldman sachs, google, citigroup. >> it is my pleasure to introduce dick parsons. >> we got to meet so many people who were at the top of their games, and we were able to learn and grow from them. >> since founding mlt, john rice has-1,700 others pursue their passion. >> that's our first-ever mogul. >> through it will aspiring entrepreneurs, who own mister, an upscale barber shop/wine bar

in san francisco, california. rice also opens doors to careers outside of business, including music. in 2002, john stephens left his job as a management consultant to work for john rice at mlt. >> he introduced me to some of his friends, lawyers, and a & r execs. he's always willing to share his network, that's one of the great things about him. >> today john stevens is john legend, at the top of his game, he's a six-time grammy award-winning artist. >> i care a lot about education, i care a lot about poverty, and i'm in a position now where i can help influence the world. >> and this is the ultimate goal of mlt, xwousherring future leaders like john legend, consumi walker, shawn hayward, and mia jackson to be successful and give back to their own communities. >> we have to have a broader

generation of minorities who have skills, experience and commitment and hopefully the capital to go out into their communities and have real impact. >> mia begins her mba program this fall. >> i was accepted to kellogg, columbia, wharton, emory. >> her choice? ranked number three in the nation. although she's graduated from mlt, mlt will always be there for mia. >> i will hold you, other people will hold you until you are steady on your own. then we will do great things. >> i'm going to be unstoppable, and i'm excited to be a part of it. >> mia jackson endured an 18-months pressure cooker. she's emerged confident. >> thank you for the opportunity, mlt. >> and focused on her road map for success form then her ultimate goal. >> having a business and passing

it on to my children. >> for john rice, mia is a success story. one of 1,700 and counting. >> how many of you all want to be a ceo? let's go make it happen. all of you have so much potential. tonight we met those creating the next generation of black leaders. tomorrow -- she's an oncologist tracking a mysterious killer, cancer. to africa and back. >> it's a tremendous opportunity to make a difference. >> how are you doing? >> he's a doctor, saving the lives of black men. one haircut at a time. >> hiv is preventable. >> does this street have a name? >> 34e street, as in miracle on

34e street. >> and it man went from homeless to media mogul. >> all right. let's get it, guys. >> and he's beating hollywood at its own game. >> he who has the gold makes the rules. >> they're all pioneers, creating innovative solutions. black in america continues tomorrow at 8:00 and 11:00 p.m. tonight breaking news, plus a push for health care reform. tonight we're keeping them honest, how their claims jibe with the facts. first police raiding michael jackson's doctor's office in houston, searching for evidence of manslaughter. according to dr. conrad murray's attorney. randi kaye joins us now. >> reporter: here's what we know