Searching for Tobias
Chloe Hadjimatheou searches for a 15-year-old black boy she met in Mississippi in 2008. Tobias was bright and charismatic with dreams of being a policeman. Can she find him again?
In 2008 Chloe Hadjimatheou was covering Barack Obama's first election campaign when she came across a 15 year old black boy in a Mississippi trailer park. Back then the young Tobias was full of potential and had big dreams of becoming a policeman. 8 years later, Chloe goes in search of him to find what became of him. Did Tobias ever fulfil his wishes and has he prospered in Obama's America?
Produced and presented by Chloe Hadjimatheou
Editor: Penny Murphy.
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