What is it like to live in two different worlds? 脗 If you芒聙聶re one of the few African-American students to get a full scholarship to an elite prep school, you try to fit in with classmates who come from wealth and privilege, but you may pay a price and lose connection with your own family and culture. Hear how an elite prep school in Columbus works to foster diversity and appreciation of cultural differences, and a film director talks about his new documentary Guests are Andre Robert Lee, director of The Prep School Negro, Head Robert Brisk, and 2010 Wellington alumnus Jacob Robinson.
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- From Damon Dash to Denzel Washington, Sean "P-Diddy" Combs to President Barack Obama, many of popular-culture's most prominent African-Americans are not just Negroes -- they're Prep-School Negroes (PSN). As graduates of elite "prep" (or "independent") school systems, this minority-within-a-minority is bucking the myth of Black kids as over-urban and under-educated. Along the way, PSNs have become a dominant force in business, media and -- with one in the White House -- increasingly politics. And now they've even got their own film -- the aptly-named, recently-completed by young New York City director Andre Robert Lee.