Yet it’s clear from these statistics that Black Gen X’ers were the most impacted by the crime wave of the ’80s and early ’90s, a time that would leave lasting scars on the country in general and the Black community in particular. Gen X filmmaker John Singleton (b. 1968) captured this reality with his semi-autobiographical movie Boyz in the Hood in 1991, a tragic drama of young men trying to make their way amid gang violence in South Los Angeles.
