FROM WEST BALTIMORE

This feature documentary premieres on October 15, 2017 at 6PM (ET) on Maryland Public Television. Produced in collaboration with the University of Maryland Baltimore CURE Scholars Program, the documentary follows six young teens from West Baltimore who share their lives and the challenges of growing up in neighborhoods of violence and poverty.

QUOTES

I believe the world doesn’t control what you have to do, you determine what you want to do.”

—Davioin 7^th grade

I think I can control my future—because of education. My most important goal is that I want to be a surgeon.”

—Tyler 7^th grade

I’m very determined in stuff that I do. And I don’t like to give up at all, because that makes me feel like a loser. And I want to be a winner.”

—Courtney 7^th grade

I promise myself– me, Princaya Sanders, I promise myself that education is first. Always going to be first. It shall be first.”

—Princaya Sanders 7^th grade

My message for Baltimore is ‘It’s time to put the violence aside and come together and show that we are Baltimore.”

—Shakeer 7^th grade

FROM WEST BALTIMORE

QUOTES

I believe the world doesn’t control what you have to do, you determine what you want to do.”

I think I can control my future—because of education. My most important goal is that I want to be a surgeon.”

I’m very determined in stuff that I do. And I don’t like to give up at all, because that makes me feel like a loser. And I want to be a winner.”

I promise myself– me, Princaya Sanders, I promise myself that education is first. Always going to be first. It shall be first.”

My message for Baltimore is ‘It’s time to put the violence aside and come together and show that we are Baltimore.”

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