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American Refugees

By Steve Jansen

Published on April 23, 2008 at 4:00am

Most of us are familiar with the refugee-to-the-U.S. story, but how many have heard of American “refugees” high-tailing it to a Third World country? We hadn’t until checking out The Boys of Baraka, which details how four African-American kids from one of the most violent neighborhoods in Baltimore are sent to an experimental boarding school in Kenya.
Thu., April 24, 6:30 p.m., 2008

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