Boyz n the Hood John Singleton

In Eldridge Cleaver’s introduction to The Genius of Huey P. Newton, he states that when reading the essays of Newton, “one can picture Huey as he was when he wrote them: hard pressed by pigs who he knew were plotting to kill him. With pigs...

Boyz n the Hood is mainly centred around 3 teenagers; Ricky, Doughboy and Tre; All 3 of which wish to embark on different paths. They live in the Crenshaw ghettos, Singleton uses Ricky in particular to break prejudices surrounding young black...