Dean Tolson, a former participant with the Seattle SuperSonics, couldn’t learn or write when he acquired a scholarship to College of Arkansas after being one in every of Missouri’s high highschool athletes, however at 52, he returned to the campus and accomplished his research.
Tolson, now 71, joins Marc Lamont Hill to share his inspiring story and the tutorial journey he talks about in his e book, “Energy Ahead: My Journey from Illiterate NBA Participant to a Magna Cum Laude Grasp’s Diploma.”
Study extra about Dean Tolson from the clip above, and tune in to “theGrio with Marc Lamont Hill” tonight at 7 pm ET on theGrio cable channel.
