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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 · 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
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. Behind those grim figures lie the grimmer realities of streets ruled by drug dealers, families fractured by addiction and prison and a public school system ...
- Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady
- September 12, 2006
Sep 12, 2006 · The Boys of Baraka follows along with their journey, and examines each boy's transformation during this remarkable time. Winner of awards at the Newport, Chicago, Woodstock and SILVERDOCS...
Nov 30, 2005 · 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 boarding school in Kenya, believing that the...
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- Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady
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- Documentary
The Boys of Baraka follows four boys as they travel with their classmates to rural Kenya in East Africa, where a teacher-student ratio of one to five, a strict disciplinary program and a ...
- 6 min
- 14.4K
- POV
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Mar 2, 2006 · The movie, by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady, begins in Baltimore, where 76 percent of African-American boys do not graduate from high school. A recruiter for Baraka speaks at an assembly, telling potential students they have three choices: jail, death or graduate from high school.