'The Boys of Baraka' chronicles the lives of four at-risk boys as they travel from their crime-infested neighborhood to a special school in Kenya.
"The Boys of Baraka, a fine documentary about a group of inner-city, at-risk boys who travel to Kenya to attend a special school, comes very close to greatness."
"Much as we might wish to save them, and much as we want them to succeed, they are up against such entrenched and corrosive maladies -- the usual urban-poor cocktail of violence, drugs, crime, absentee fathers, etc. -- that the chances are slim. In Baltimore, where these boys live, 76 percent of African-American boys do not graduate from high school."
"Where else can inner-city youth get such comprehensive support?"
FULL STORY: Dreams Deferred

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