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Filmmaker John Singleton, who debuted with the Oscar-nominated “Boyz N the Hood” and continued making movies that probed the lives of black communities in his native Los Angeles, CA and beyond, has died.

According to WICS-TV & The Associated Press, Singleton’s family said Monday that he died after being taken off life support, about two weeks after the director suffered a major stroke.

The 1991 movie”Boyz N the Hood” was based on Singleton’s upbringing and shot in his old neighborhood. It starred Cuba Gooding,oscar Jr. as a rebellious teen whose single mother sends him to live with his father in South Central Los Angeles.

Singleton became the first black director to receive an Academy Award nomination, and the youngest to do so at the age of 24, and also received a screenplay nomination. His other films included “Poetic Justice (1993),” ”Rosewood (1997),” and “Shaft (2000).”

He is survived by his mother, Sheila Ward, his father, Danny Singleton, and his children Justice, Maasai, Hadar, Cleopatra, Selenesol, Isis, and Seven.

Movie Director and Actor John Singleton, dead at the age of 51.