At 24 years old, John Singleton became the youngest Oscar-nominated director on history with his cinematic debut, Boyz in the Hood. Today, the film about urban African American life, is considered among the top 50 movies of the 90s along with fan-favorites including Clueless, Friday, and The Sixth Sense. Singleton’s third feature film, Higher Learning, which premiered in cinemas across America in 1995, was met with mixed reviews. The late film critic Roger Ebert gave the film three out of five stars, and he notes “…this is not a ‘Black movie,’ [Singleton] sees the whole campus population as its subject.” But does he? Whereas Boyz highlights similar themes of racial profiling and violence, the film also features the voice of the emerging educated African American woman. This voice is virtually invisible in Higher Learning.