Glynn Turman — whose incredible six-decade career spans from “Peyton Place” and “Cooley High” to “The Wire,” “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” and “Rustin” — is finally getting a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. And he says he owes it all to two people: a sharp-eyed woodshop teacher… and, most of all, his smart, unstoppable mom.
When Glynn Turman was a kid, his family moved from Harlem to Greenwich Village, where his mother fell in with a vibrant circle of artists — James Baldwin, Odetta, Josh White. One day, her friend playwright Lorraine Hansberry mentioned her first play was being produced and asked,…


