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The Boys of Baraka is a 2005 documentary film produced and directed by filmmakers Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady. The documentary follows twenty boys from Baltimore, Maryland who spend their seventh and eighth grade years at a rural boarding school in northern Kenya.
Oct 15, 2005 · The Boys of Baraka. Twenty 12-year-old black boys from one of the most violent ghettos in Baltimore, Maryland, are taken 10,000 miles away to an experimental boarding school in rural Kenya, to try to take advantage of the educational opportunities they can't get in their own country.
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- Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady
- 2005-10-15
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The Boys of Baraka (Emmy and NAACP Image award winner) focuses on four boys: Devon, Montrey, Richard and his brother Romesh. Their humor and explicit truthfulness give intimate insight into their optimistic plans, despite the tremendous obstacles they face both at home and in school.
Mar 2, 2006 · A film about 20 black boys from Baltimore who are sent to a boarding school in Kenya for two years. The film shows their transformation, challenges and hopes, and the impact of a terrorist attack that forced them to return home.
The Boys of Baraka reveals the human face of a tragic statistic -- 61 percent of Baltimore's African-American boys fail to graduate from high school; 50 percent of them go on to jail.
This documentary follows a group of African-American parents in a violent Baltimore ghetto, who in 2002 choose to send their junior high boys to a...
- Documentary
