to be made from university athletes and yet for the players themselves, unless they go professional, the pay-off is slim. It’s this tenuous relationship between student athletes and the institutions they attend that Singleton loudly portrayed inand while the unfairness of this system began to grate against Malik, his partner and fellow athlete Deja censored herself into compliance.
of youth and the inevitability of anti-blackness in predominantly white spaces that Singleton rendered. Sometimes forcefully and other times with a much needed tenderness and even with its shortcomings,remains a film that understood what it means to make a space as you search for your place.