biographical article needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous or harmful. (August 2008) This article may need to be wikified to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. Please help by adding relevant internal links, or by improving the article's layout. (March 2011) John Singleton Singleton at a USC Football rally, December 30, 2000 Born John Daniel Singleton January 6, 1968 (1968-01-06) (age 43) Los Angeles, California Spouse Akosua Busia (1996-1997) John Daniel Singleton (born January 6, 1968) is an African American film director, writer, screenwriter, and producer. He is a native of South Los Angeles and claims that “early day-to-day experiences in the hood” formed his point of view in many of his films like the critically acclaimed and popular Boyz n the Hood, “Poetic Justice”, “Higher Learning” and “Baby Boy”. The majority of John Singleton’s film’s are directly focused around inner city violence that plagues urban life, drug abuse, poverty, gang problems, police corruption/misconduct, unjust educational system/inequality in college admission, cultural bias in standardized testing etc. In his films, Singleton wants the world to see “an inner strength to black men that movies often ignore”. Also portrayed in many of his films is an African-American perspective that is packed with explosive storylines, sociological insight, and hip –hop attitude. Singleton to many movie critics is known as a “head-line grabbing iconoclast” who focuses his works on subjects rarely dealt with on film. Singleton has recently branched out into mainstream territory with the blockbuster “2 Fast 2 Furious” (2003) and “Four Brothers” (2005)..