Editing John Singleton (section)

== Early life ==
John Singleton was born on January 6, 1968,<ref>{{cite news|url= https://www.upi.com/Top_News/2019/01/06/UPI-Almanac-for-Sunday-Jan-6-2019/8591546568650/ |title= UPI Almanac for Sunday, Jan. 6, 2019|work=[[United Press International]]|date=January 6, 2019|access-date=September 10, 2019|archive-date=September 11, 2019 |archive-url= https://archive.today/20190911222236/https://www.upi.com/Top_News/2019/01/06/UPI-Almanac-for-Sunday-Jan-6-2019/8591546568650/|url-status=live|quote= filmmaker John Singleton in 1968 (age 51)}}</ref> in Los Angeles, the son of Shelia Ward-Johnson (later Morgan), a pharmaceutical company sales executive, and Danny Singleton, a real estate agent, mortgage broker, and financial planner.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/89/John-Singleton.html |title=John Singleton Biography (1968–) |publisher=Film Reference |access-date=October 8, 2010}}</ref> In a 1993 DIRT magazine interview with [[Veronica Chambers]], Singleton says of his childhood, "When I was growing up, comic books, video games and movies were my buffer against all the drugs, the partying and shit [...] I never grew up with a whole lot of white people. I grew up in a black neighborhood."<ref>{{cite magazine|last1=Chambers|first1=Veronica|date=1993|title=Singleton|magazine=DIRT Magazine|issue=5|page=28}}</ref> He attended [[Eisenhower High School (Rialto, California)|Eisenhower High School]], [[Blair International Baccalaureate School|Blair High School]], [[Pasadena City College]] and the [[USC School of Cinematic Arts]].

Singleton was a spring 1987 initiate into the Beta Omega chapter of [[Kappa Alpha Psi]] and graduated from [[University of Southern California|USC]] in 1990. Singleton considered pursuing [[computer science]], but enrolled in USC's Filmic Writing program under Margaret Mehring.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www-cntv.usc.edu/about/news/margaret-mehring.htm|publisher=USC School of Cinematic Arts |title=Margaret Mehring |date=September 3, 2008|access-date=October 8, 2010|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100819133815/http://www-cntv.usc.edu/about/news/margaret-mehring.htm|archive-date=August 19, 2010}}</ref> The program was designed to take students directly into the Hollywood system as proficient writer/directors.