Most people remember John Singleton from his 1991 film Boyz n the Hood, an unforgettably striking debut from a filmmaker who knew how to straddle empathy and tension. The film became both a foundation and defining facet of Singleton’s legacy almost to the exclusion of all else, doing what Illmatic did for Nas’s career; everything which came after would always be compared to that incredible first.
to be made from university athletes and yet for the players themselves, unless they go professional, the pay-off is slim. It’s this tenuous relationship between student athletes and the institutions they attend that Singleton loudly portrayed inand while the unfairness of this system began to grate against Malik, his partner and fellow athlete Deja censored herself into compliance.
of youth and the inevitability of anti-blackness in predominantly white spaces that Singleton rendered. Sometimes forcefully and other times with a much needed tenderness and even with its shortcomings,remains a film that understood what it means to make a space as you search for your place.
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