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From the menu at Baraka Cafe, Central Square...
...anthology called The Black Poets, edited by a man named Dudley Randall. I read that book cover to cover and dog-eared it. I let it take root inside me and grow, as George Steiner would say. Those poets, from Paul Lawrence Dunbar up through Ntozake Shange, Amiri Baraka, Gwendolyn Brooks, Langston Hughes, Alice Walker and Margaret Danner, they were my first influence, even before I was writing. It took me a long time to learn how to read white people’s poetry...
...Baraka School in Kenya, where troubled U.S. students are sent, is a wonderful example of how a positive teaching experience can change lives [EDUCATION, Oct. 9]. Bravo for Baraka and the success of the program! I cried when I read that the young black men come home to Baltimore, Md., determined to turn their lives around. I hope more school districts--and parents--will be willing to save their children by letting them go into other worlds, places where they can strengthen their sense of self. ERV DYER Pittsburgh...
Seeing themselves in this new context seems to help many of the Baraka kids redirect their lives. Kevin Prem, now 15, joined a gang when he was only 10. By the time he was 12, his two older brothers and nine of his friends had dropped out of school. At Baraka, though, Kevin got his temper under control and won five awards for academic excellence. Now he plans to be a prosecuting attorney, so he can put in jail "people who sell drugs to kids." Daryl Stewart, now 16, had been kicked out of six schools before going to Baraka...
Embry blames the uprising on uneven rule enforcement and poor management, and insists that better leadership and faculty selection will prevent a recurrence. He also believes that the school needs a mix of kids, not just ones who have been disruptive, and that Baraka needs to screen out students with serious psychological problems...