Film Screening: The Boys of Baraka

2401 Scott Blvd SE,Iowa City IA 52240

19 April, 2023

Description

Iowa City's Office of Equity and Human Rights will host a screening of The Boys of Baraka alongside commentary and discussion led by Dr. Stephanie DiPietro. 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. Twenty boys attend, and when they return for break, the experiment seems worth the effort. However, with Kenya facing terrorist attacks, the group must assess where the greater risk lies.