After a brawl at school puts Daje Shelton,17, in a court-supervised alternative high school, she's determined to turn things around and forge a brighter future for herself in her gritty St. Louis area. It's hard to concentrate on school when she loses a lot of friends to gun violence, falls in love for the first time, and gets pregnant just as the Ferguson riots begin nearby. By focusing on Daje's personal journey through adolescence, For Ahkeem provides a window into the struggles that many Black teens in the United States are currently facing.
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After a brawl at school puts Daje Shelton,17, in a court-supervised alternative high school, she's determined to turn things around and forge a brighter future for herself in her gritty St. Louis area. It's hard to concentrate on school when she loses a lot of friends to gun violence, falls in love for the first time, and gets pregnant just as the Ferguson riots begin nearby. By focusing on Daje's personal journey through adolescence, For Ahkeem provides a window into the struggles that many Black teens in the United States are currently facing.
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