Tag: Singletons

The Rise of the Singletons

In the 1990s, my father taught a course on engineering at Boston University. The class was almost all men. But every semester, a few token women would show up for the first day of class and never return. My dad used to joke they were “husband hunting.” One of his one-day-only stude...

In Memory of John Singleton on His Birthday

January 6th is writer-director John Singleton’s 56th birthday, or it would’ve been had he not tragically died far too young five years ago. I want to use this moment to share some thoughts about the impact of his work on me and others. Singleton’s debut film Boyz N the...