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Between Baltimore and Kenya

Following the Journey of The Boys of Baraka

The Boys of Baraka opens with a montage of inner city nihilism—a policeman chases a man through the streets; a drug deal goes down in broad daylight; two men fight on a street corner. It’s Baltimore, Maryland, where we learn that fewer than 25 percent of the city’s African American males will graduate from high […]

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