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...DIFFICULT TO BE A YOUNG BLACK filmmaker like John Singleton. His race tends to impose racism on him as a subject. His youth and his status as a generational spokesman oblige him to assume a particular attitude, an outraged political correctness that extends to other, nonracial matters (notably sexism). His audience, which is also young, meanwhile makes, or seems to make, contradictory demands on him -- for violently dramatic confrontations on one hand; for hopeful, or at least not entirely bleak, conclusions on the other...
...quarterback, Jerry Singleton has done a more-than-adequate job filling in for Riley. Against Cornell, his second career start, Singleton completed 24 of 30 passes for 259 and two touchdowns...
...game was closer than even the score would indicate. Cornell led 10-0 going into the fourth quarter. The Big Green, however, suddenly came alive, scoring two touchdowns in the first eight minutes of the period. The last, a pass from quarterback Jerry Singleton to David Shearer, gave it a 14-10 lead...
Brooklyn-born Alvin Singleton, 53, also comfortably bridges the gap between European and black forms, though many of his pieces explore black themes. His orchestral composition Even Tomorrow, for example, is an homage to Thurgood Marshall, but the music itself is strictly formal in style...
FILM The success of movies by black directors like Spike Lee (Do the Right Thing) and John Singleton (Boyz in the Hood) proved that black-oriented, mainstream movies can be profitable. Less commercial black filmmakers like Julie Dash (Daughters of the Dust) and Charles Burnett (To Sleep with Anger) continue to have difficulty raising money, but they produce substantial work nevertheless. One such movie is Haile Gerima's electrifying underground hit Sankofa, in which a young black woman is transported back in time to experience the horrors of slavery. Gerima, a professor of film at Washington's predominantly black Howard...