There Are No Children Here

Plot Summary

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.

Top Cast

Oprah Winfrey LaJoe Rivers

Maya Angelou Lelia Mae

Keith David John Paul Rivers

Mark Lane Lafayette Rivers

Norman D. Golden II Pharoah Rivers