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 arrived like a bolt of lightning – startling, powerful, and seemingly out of the blue. Fresh out of USC film school, and armed with a wisdom, maturity, and gift for storytelling that ...

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 ...

South Central Los Angeles used to be easily dismissed – if it was thought about at all – as a vast economic and cultural wasteland, littered with minorities, madness and mindless violence. That all ...

One of the recurring jokes in Get Hard — apart from all the controversial gags about prison rape — is that Will Ferrell’s character, a rich white guy named James King, knows next to nothing about ...

Time now for movie critic Bob Mondello to suggest something for viewing at home, rather than the multiplex. This week, the 20 th anniversary release of a film that jump-started a lot of careers: Boyz ...

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 ...

Today marks the 20th anniversary of John Singleton’s Boyz n the Hood, the film that, in many ways, put the tragic world of Los Angeles street culture into our nation’s collective consciousness. Really ...

John Singleton cast Ice Cube in 'Boyz n the Hood' with no acting experience. But he was convinced the rapper was right for the role. by Robert Yaniz Jr. But 1991’s Boyz n the Hood was something ...

The early 2000s were a very fruitful time for southern hip-hop. While the West and East Coasts dominated the hip-hop landscape throughout the '80s and the '90s, artists below the Mason-Dixon line had ...

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 ...