As it turns out, New York City might have been the perfect place for them, alongside Hispanic and African American kids, so much diversity, Hau recalls. He experienced little racism or bullying and ...

"It means so much because, as a kid growing up in the inner city and a lot of African-American kids, you don't really think past high school," James also said. "You don't really know your future.

The version that hit theaters was highly sanitized, having had more than a half-hour of footage cut and many scenes reshot after it was ... “I was very disturbed by racism. There were about 150 ...