Muddy No Longer

How do we reach our African American male youths today? Not all, but some, are getting lost in all of the misery which they grow up in. It's as if we're breeding some of them just to turn out to be drug dealers or addicts or the silhouette of a chalk outline.

Muddy No Longer follows the story of two main characters, Haruni Nguimgo and Jerald Longfield; one on his journey to healing and wholeness, and the other in his discovery of, and eventually his walking in, his full potential.

Mr. Leever, the principal of Daniel Hale Williams High School in Oxon Hill, Maryland, grew deeply pessimistic of the welfare of his African American male students. Not knowing how to successfully reach them, he requested the help of an African American social science professor at Howard University. (And rightfully so, because the remedying of the Negro could not be fully accomplished by someone of another race. The task of building up the African American had to come from one of their own.) Understanding that African Americans, especially the males, needed a separate institution designated solely for their development, Professor Haruni Nguimgo agreed to come and teach at Daniel Hale Williams High.

We watch Jerald over the course of his high school career, from ninth grade to twelfth, become the best young man he could be.
We also witness how Haruni deals with personal issues of his own.

Come, witness how these boys and men have washed away the mud from them which used to weigh them down.