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The Boys of Baraka is a documentary film that sheds light on the harsh realities faced by African American boys in Baltimore. The film addresses the alarming statistic that 76% of African-American boys in Baltimore fail to graduate from high school, with 50% of them ending up in jail.
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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- Documentary
- Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady
- 2005-10-15
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...
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- Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady
- R
- Documentary
Mar 2, 2006 · The boys thrive at Baraka. Their behavior is transformed, their grades improve and they think differently of themselves. Then everything changes. Because of terrorist attacks and the closure of the American embassy in Nairobi, Baraka has to shut down at the end of the first of the boys’ two years.
African-American boys have a very high chance of being incarcerated or killed before they reach adulthood. In Baltimore, one of the country's most poverty-stricken cities for inner-city residents...
- 6 min
- 14.6K
- POV
Sep 12, 2006 · The boys are offered an amazing opportunity in the form of the Baraka school, a project founded to break the cycle of violence through an innovative education program that literally removed...
Four 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...
