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AN EAST AFRICAN PERSPECTIVE Jerry Okungu THE death of Michael Jackson invokes many fond memories of the 1970s and 80s when his music career was peaking.

Peter Howell F ight the power! Kapow! Spike Lee's masterful Do the Right Thing is constantly in your face, from its dancing pugilist opener to the one-two punch of Radio Raheem's "Love/Hate" brass knuckles to the torrent of abuse hurled by the film's hot-and-bothered races.

DVD Release Date: June 30 Director/Writer: Spike Lee Cinematographer: Ernest Dickerson Starring: Lee, Danny Aiello, John Turturro, Ruby Dee, Ossie Davis Studio / Run Time: Universal, 120 mins.

Eric D. Snider , Jun 29, 2009 In the late Middle Ages, a common type of popular theater was the "morality play," a simple, relatively short drama intended to teach the audience good morals.

Twenty years later, the trash can is still crashing through America's window. At the climax of Spike Lee's 1989 drama "Do The Right Thing," the eternal battle between love and hate teeters on a razor's edge.

In 1996, Spike Lee - director of films from Do the Right Thing to Malcolm X to the recent documentary Kobe Doin' Work - traveled to Brazil with Michael Jackson to produce the music video for his controversial song "They Don't Care About Us." He talked to TIME about his experiences, Michael Jackson's legacy and having the Gloved One as a houseguest.

John Ivison of the National Post has called my possible election as national chief a "nightmare scenario". I have entered the race because what we heard at the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs candidates forum in May was status quo.

Spike Lee was thirty-one years old when he made Do the Right Thing , but it was only his third feature film; his first, She's Gotta Have It , was an indie sensation, while its follow-up, School Daze , proved a profitable urban hit in spite of mishandling by Columbia Pictures.

Gwen Ifill hosts PBS's "Washington Week." Gwen Ifill went from writing about politics for The New York Times and Washington Post to chief political correspondent for NBC News before becoming PBS's moderator and managing editor of "Washington Week" and senior correspondent for "The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer." Her first book, "The Breakthrough: ...

What impact would you say that Do the Right Thing had on race relations in America? Aqeel Kameelah FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA.

NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. ― Mug shot of Daniel Sanabria, 58, accused of assaulting a 10-year-old boy who wouldn't leave a dodge ball game at a Westchester elementary school CBS Close CBS Mug shot of Daniel Sanabria, 58, accused of assaulting a 10-year-old boy who wouldn't leave a dodge ball game at a Westchester elementary school A substitute ...

I grew up in the age of assassinations. Medgar Evers, JFK, Malcolm X, Bobby Kennedy, Martin Luther King.

Another big-budget Tony Scott action flick, another opportunity to slam his directorial flourishes: clumsy plots, spastic camera movements, and a nearly childish disregard for plausibility.

Denzel Washington has successfully transformed into many memorable characters over the years with his portrayals of Malcolm X, Coach Herman Boone , John Quincy Archibald , and even Humpty Dumpty .

Twenty years ago this month, Do the Right Thing hit theaters - a tale of simmering racial tension in a Brooklyn neighborhood that sparked a national debate over race and class and marked a breakthrough for a director who would play a pivotal part in that discussion for decades.

As a youngster, Denzel Washington would take the No. 2 subway train from the Bronx every day into Manhattan.

Denzel Washington goes head to head with John Travolta for the first time in the riveting remake of The Taking of Pelham 123 .

The African American church in America is multiple in direction and the role it plays as community leader has, arguably, never been stronger.

It was built by German-born stockbroker Gustavus Sidenberg to the designs of architects George and Edward Blum.

John 'Hoppy' Hopkins lived the spirit of the Sixties, photographing the leading musicians and politicians of his day Ben Machell A few days before I am due to meet John Hopkins, a well-meaning intermediary suggests that it might be useful for "Hoppy" to have, in advance, a list of the sort of things I'd like to know about.