When Mike Wallace, the decaying corpse from that venerable CBS sleazefest 60 Minutes, profiled me in March 1994, the cadaverous charlatan described me as a “high school dropout.” His wording, like his reporting, was inaccurate. Strictly speaking, a “dropout” is someone who willingly withdraws from or abandons their schooling. I was not technically a dropout. That said, it is true that I have no high school diploma. Bear with me for an anecdote. Don’t worry—I’m gonna circle around to something more current soon enough. In my 85% black L.A. public high school, the theater department was my little kingdom, my duchy. … Continue reading Why I Don’t Have a High School Diploma