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    The Boys of Baraka

    R2005 · Documentary · 1h 24m
  2. Oct 15, 2005 · The Boys of Baraka: Directed by Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady. With Devon Brown, Darius Chambers, Edward Bernard Green Jr., Richard Keyser. 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 ...

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    • Documentary
    • Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady
    • 2005-10-15
  3. Synopsis. 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.

    • J.J. McGeehan
    • ITVS
    • Devon Brown, Richard Keyser
  4. 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.

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  6. Film Description. 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 ...

    • Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady
    • September 12, 2006
  7. 56. 14K views 9 years ago. 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...

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  8. 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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  9. Sep 12, 2006 · about. Devon, Montrey, Richard, and Romesh are just at that age — 12 and 13 years old — when boys start to become men. But in their hometown of Baltimore, one of the country's most...

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