Like most folks who spent their teen years in the ’90s, Boyz N the Hood is part of my life. I saw it in a movie theater in Opelika, Ala., when it was released in July 1991 and in the nearly 32 y ...

He proved that a movie with no white faces as major characters, about the dicey topic of black-on-black crime, could win over critics and audiences of all colors. The film was Boyz n the Hood.

Films are portals into worlds; hood movies are no different ... memes and other jokes considered. While Boyz n the Hood may not have said anything new about the odds stacked against blacks ...

Twenty-five years ago, Boyz n the Hood, John Singleton's movie about life in South Central Los Angeles, revolutionized black film and launched the big-screen careers of its stars, including Ice ...

“Boyz N the Hood,” was released on July 12, 1991, it immediately made him a household name in many Black communities across the country. The movie was so well received that my mother decided ...

Written and directed by 23-year-old, first-time filmmaker John Singleton, Boyz n the Hood is a booming ... outbursts of black voices in mainstream movies, should embrace this furiously gentle ...

Here’s our original review of “Boyz N the Hood,” by Times film critic Kenneth Turan, published the day the movie debuted: It’s an oddly disturbing sound, a persistent noise rattling around ...

In 1986, John Singleton crafted the idea for the coming-of-age drama Boyz n the Hood as part of his application ... and on July 2, 1991, the movie, which would later be chosen by the United ...

that his group’s movie museum will in February devote space to the late director John Singleton’s Boyz N The Hood. So here’s a gentle plea to the museum: Do this one without apology.

But he was convinced the rapper was right for the role. by Robert Yaniz Jr. But 1991’s Boyz n the Hood was something special. The movie – which follows a group of young Black men living in Sou ...