There Are No Children Here

The devastating story of brothers Lafayette and Pharoah Rivers, children of the Chicago ghetto, is powerfully told here by a Wall Street Journal reporter who first met the boys in 1985 when they were 10 and 7, respectively. Their family includes a mother, a frequently absent father, an older brother, and younger triplets. We witness the horrors of growing up in an ill-maintained housing project tyrannized by drug gangs and where murders and shootings frequently occur.

Director: Anita W. Addison

Cast: Oprah Winfrey, Maya Angelou, Keith David, Mark Lane, Norman D. Golden II, Vonte Sweet, Crystal Laws Green

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