There Are No Children Here

Overview

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.

Cast

Oprah Winfrey

LaJoe Rivers

Maya Angelou

Lelia Mae

Keith David

John Paul Rivers

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Mark Lane

Lafayette Rivers

Norman D. Golden II

Pharoah Rivers

Vonte Sweet

Craig

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Crystal Laws Green

Rochelle