Thirty years ago, young director John Singleton changed the face of cinema with the release of his groundbreaking first film, Boyz n the Hood. New York City had Do the Right Thing, care of Spike Lee.

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With the debut of his “Boyz N the Hood” on July 12, 1991, writer-director John Singleton helped usher in a new phase of cinema depicting African American life. Twenty-seven years later, the film is ...

Boyz n the Hood was writer/director John Singleton’s first film, and to say that the young artist nailed it would be an understatement. The story takes place in an all black neighborhood plagued with ...

The conventional wisdom in Hollywood is that if you want to have a film about minorities, there need to be white actors in the lead roles. Just look at the current box office success The Help—Emma ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. John Singleton, seen at the 2018 Academy Awards in Los Angeles, directed three films getting a Criterion Collection set April 28.

Upon its release 25 years ago, on July 12, 1991, "Boyz N the Hood" was recognized as an instant landmark film. The coming-of-age drama about three young African-American men in South Central Los ...

While Spike Lee and Jada Pinkett Smith have called for an Oscar boycott, John Singleton, who became the first African-American nominated for the best director Academy Award for his 1991 film “Boyz n ...

Jimi Izrael is the author of The Denzel Principle: Why Black Women Can't Find Good Black Men and a regular contributor to Tell Me More. A lot of the nostalgia around the 20 th anniversary of ...

John Singleton was just 23 years old when he wrote and directed “Boyz n the Hood,” becoming the first African American – and the youngest person ever – to receive an Oscar nomination for best director ...