{"id":150920,"date":"2019-04-30T17:23:59","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T22:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/barack-obama-remembers-john-singleton-as-trailblazing-director"},"modified":"2019-04-30T17:24:09","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T22:24:09","slug":"barack-obama-remembers-john-singleton-as-trailblazing-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/barack-obama-remembers-john-singleton-as-trailblazing-director","title":{"rendered":"Barack Obama Remembers John Singleton as Trailblazing Director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"post-86766\">\n<header class=\"entry-header\">    \t\t<!-- .entry-meta --><br \/>\n    \t<\/header>\n<p><!-- .entry-header --><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n\t\t<!-- adman_adcode_beginning --><\/p>\n<div id=\"post-2019_04_30_president-barack-obama-john-singleton-tribute-boyz-n-the-hood\">\n<h2>\n<\/h2>\n<p>   <span class=\"hf1\">Barack Obama <\/span><\/p>\n<p>   <span class=\"hf2\">John Singleton Opened Doors \u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p>   <span class=\"hf3-case\">Told the Stories Hollywood Tried to Ignore<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"article-posted-date\">\n<\/h5>\n<p>   4\/30\/2019 2:03 PM PDT<\/p>\n<div class=\"all-post-body group article-content\">\n<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Barack Obama\" alt=\"Barack Obama\" src=\"https:\/\/etrafficlane.com\/newline\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Barack-Obama-Remembers-John-Singleton-as-Trailblazing-Director.jpg\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/person\/barack-obama\/\">Barack Obama<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0is remembering <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/person\/john-singleton\/\"><strong>John Singleton<\/strong><\/a> as a trailblazing director who opened doors for filmmakers of color, and showed Hollywood there were stories that needed to be told.<\/p>\n<p>The former President tweeted his condolences to the late director\u2019s family on Tuesday and took a moment to remember John\u2019s work and everything he did for minority filmmakers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Obama said, \u201cHis seminal work, Boyz n the Hood, remains one of the most searing, loving portrayals of the challenges facing inner-city youth. He opened doors for filmmakers of color to tell powerful stories that have been too often ignored.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As we reported \u2026 John <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2019\/04\/29\/boyz-n-the-hood-director-john-singleton-dead-coma-massive-stroke-dies\/\"><strong>died Monday<\/strong><\/a> after being taken off life support following a massive stroke. He was just 51.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>John was the first African American nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director \u2026 for \u201cBoyz n the Hood.\u201d John was only 23 when he directed the groundbreaking film.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"lightbox-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/photos\/2019\/04\/29\/john-singleton-sailboat-yacht-sea-ocean-photos\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Boyz n the Hood\" alt=\"Boyz n the Hood\" src=\"https:\/\/etrafficlane.com\/newline\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/1556662521_762_Barack-Obama-Remembers-John-Singleton-as-Trailblazing-Director.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2019\/04\/30\/president-barack-obama-john-singleton-tribute-boyz-n-the-hood\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- adman_adcode_after --><\/p>\n<p class=\"dpsp-share-text\">Sharing is caring!<\/p>\n<p class=\"gasd_author\"><a href=\"https:\/\/etrafficlane.com\/newline\/about-me\" rel=\"author\" title=\"Profile for Dalelorenzo Johnson\">Profile for Dalelorenzo Johnson<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<footer class=\"entry-footer\"><span class=\"cat-links\">Posted in <a href=\"https:\/\/etrafficlane.com\/newline\/category\/categorized\/news\" rel=\"category tag\">News<\/a><\/span>\t<\/footer>\n<p><!-- .entry-footer --><\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/etrafficlane.com\/newline\/barack-obama-remembers-john-singleton-as-trailblazing-director\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barack Obama John Singleton Opened Doors \u2026 Told the Stories Hollywood Tried to Ignore 4\/30\/2019 2:03 PM PDT Barack Obama\u00a0is remembering John Singleton as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}