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- 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 children stand a better chance of a stable future in Africa than roaming Baltimore's poverty-stricken streets.
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After the film's release, there was an outpouring of national concern over the state of inner city education for African American males. The concerns reached the film directors, former Baraka School teachers, alumni of the school, and individuals involved in educational reform.
Richard Keyser, one of the boys who appear in The Boys of Baraka, talks about the film. He says, "I'm most definitely glad that I was in the movie, you know what I'm saying?
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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.
Mar 2, 2006 · 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. In Baltimore that summer, they're told they won't be going back.
In a city plagued by poverty where African-American boys are left behind more often than other children, a film documenting the unusual education of four has inspired the mayor to seek solutions to Baltimore's educational problems. — Emma Daly, The New York Times
- Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady
- September 12, 2006
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.
Feb 10, 2006 · A documentary about four inner-city boys who escape a life of poverty, violence and educational failure to discover their potential at a boarding school in Kenya -- sounds like spinach, right?
