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Treme cast member Ameer Baraka does more than act on set. He also mentors 16-year-olds David Quinn and Jermaine Morgan, who, like Baraka, ran into trouble with the law early. Baraka hopes to expose the teenagers to the world of production work in New Orleans as an alternative to crime. “If I could clone myself to the 100th power, it would work,” he says.
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Treme cast member Ameer Baraka does more than act on set. He also mentors 16-year-olds David Quinn and Jermaine Morgan, who, like Baraka, ran into trouble with the law early. Baraka hopes to expose the teenagers to the world of production work in New Orleans as an alternative to crime. “If I could clone myself to the 100th power, it would work,” he says.
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