John Singleton (writer, director) HIGHER LEARNING (Jan 26, 1994) Rainbow film script

Los Angeles: New Deal Productions, 1994. Vintage original film script, 11 x 8 1/2″ (28 x 22 cm), 114 pp. Dated January 26, 1994, a true rainbow script (with dated revisions on many colors of paper, incorporating rewrites of nine different dates, each on a different color of paper, ranging from 2/1/94 to 4/9/94). Brad bound, title page coming loose from bottom brad, near fine.

In the same way that Spike Lee galvanized the film world with a series of films of African American interest, all set on the East Coast (though mostly in New York City), John Singleton in turn created a series of important African American films set in California. After his debut with the groundbreaking Boyz n the Hood, he followed up with a series of provocative films, of which the socially conscious Higher Learning was his third feature — a film set at a fictional university in which racial conflicts between students are highlighted in the storyline. The hero of the film, Malik Williams (Omar Epps), is a black track star who struggles with his academics. The drama depicts the difficult status of black students, who feel competing needs for separatism and for integration with the general student body. (Wikipedia)