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Street Soldiers

San Francisco's Omega Boys Club reaches out to America's most endangered: young African American men.

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PBS Plus Presentation

Premiere Date

February 1, 1997

Length

90 minutes

Funding Type

Co-Production

Located near San Francisco's Potrero Hill projects, the Omega Boys Club relentlessly reaches out to America's most endangered: young African American men. Omega's direct, realistic, and hands-on approach offers guidance, intervention, and structure with a price — hard work. "Everybody else runs a program. We run a family." —Joe Marshall, OBC Director