Street Soldier: The Documentary

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A moving, stereotype-smashing documentary about three African American juvenile offenders struggling to turn their lives around with help from the tough but tender Omega Boys Club of San Francisco, an organization that demonstrates what can be done in a violent community when somebody cares. Producer/Director: Avon Kirkland. An ITVS presentation produced by New Images Productions, Inc. with funds provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

Street Soldiers^® chronicles the relentless efforts of the Omega Boys Club to save American's most endangered - young African American men. Believing that social diseases, like viral and bacteria diseases, are contagious, Omega is committed to helping eradicate a condition diagnosed by Omega Director Joe Marshall as "Hood Disease," before it becomes full - blown "A.I.D.S." - (Addicted to Incarceration and Death Syndrome.) "If you work with us, we will help you get out of jail and into college. Everybody else runs a program. We run a family."

Narrated by Danny Glover.

Premiered nationwide on PBS in January / February 1997.