Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. Let me start by making one thing abundantly clear: I believe that “Menace ...

It was my senior year of high school. A hot Memorial Day weekend, May 26, 1993. My cousin and I went to a see it at a theater that has long since closed down, The Americana. Patrons were being waved ...

While navigating all of the chaos, uncertainty and madness in the world, we also deserve to have fun. Award-winning director Albert Hughes identified the need for art to offer a means of escape and ...

I was 20 years old when I moved to L.A. from Detroit. My first audition ever was for Boyz n the Hood. I didn’t land a role. Shortly thereafter I got the call to audition for Menace II Society. I was ...

`The hunt is on. And you’re the prey,” the bitter, frustrated, middle-aged high school teacher tells the young, black Caine, the antihero of “Menace II Society.” The theme of endangerment of the young ...

There was a clear movement afoot as the fraternal filmmaking duo Albert and Allen Hughes released their feature film debut, 1993’s Menace II Society, 30 years ago, on May 26, 1993. The story follows ...

The early and mid-1990s saw the meteoric rise in popularity of gritty urban films that gave audiences a glimpse into life in South Central Los Angeles (now called South L.A.) and New York including ...

She worked on films including 'Highlander II' and 'Menace II Society' before founding Create Now, which connects underserved kids with Hollywood. By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Jill Gurr, a veteran ...

Allen Hughes, one of the directors of the beloved 1993 drama Menace II Society, is bringing a four-part documentary event series about the long-running partnership between Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre to ...

EVEN THOUGH I grew up in the city, crime was no something I really worried about until one muggy afternoon in June 1987. That was the day I learned that one of my childhood friends, Erin Keith Johnson ...