January 8, 2007

Photo: 2007 MLK Symposium rolls up sleeves to build ‘Beautiful Community’

The documentary film “The Boys of Baraka” shows the human face of a tragic statistic: 61 percent of Baltimore’s African-American boys fail to graduate from high school and 50 percent go on to jail. Behind those grim figures lie grim realities of streets ruled by drug dealers, families fractured by addiction and prison and a public school system seemingly surrendered to chaos. This Reel Black Cinema presentation is at 8 p.m. Jan. 8 at the William Monroe Trotter Multicultural Center, 1443 Washtenaw. An MLK symposium schedule can be found at http://www.mlksymposium.umich.edu. (Photo courtesy Loki Films)
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