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Filmmaker Spike Lee speaks to a capacity crowd at Cox Auditorium in the Alumni Memorial Building on Monday.

In 1989, the warnings were dire. The Spike Lee film "Do the Right Thing," critics and columnists said, would provoke violence and disrupt race relations.

Long before Mike Holmes coined the phrase 'make it right', in a much different context, Spike Lee turned the phrase 'Do the right thing' into his very own catchphrase.

It's hard to believe that it's already been 20 years since the summer of '89 when Do the Right Thing made such a splash upon arriving in theaters.

The black film revolution started well before Do the Right Thing was released in 1989 to waves of acclaim and controversy.

Tom and Derrick team up with their Hip Hop Maestro, Kelen 'B Hyphen' Conley as they discuss one of Brooklyn's favorite filmmaking sons, Spike Lee! Join the trio as they discuss a quintet of Spike's films, from the seminal dramedy Do The Right Thing to the utterly savage satire Bamboozled and the controversial relationship dramas She's Gotta Have It ...

Spike Lee's 'Do the Right Thing,' which celebrates its 20th anniversary this summer, makes its Blu-ray disc debut on June 30.

Nelson George, Grammy Award winner, filmmaker and author of just-out City Kid: A Writer's Memoir of Ghetto Life and Post Soul Success and over a dozen other books, was the writer in the hip-hop movement and came out of Ft.

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.

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

He's been able to "Do the Right Thing" for two decades, and now Brooklyn will honor filmmaker Spike Lee during a three-day festival.

I didn't make it to the Spike Lee tribute last night, but my friend and colleague John Hartl did, and sent the following report: The interaction at Wednesday's Spike Lee tribute was alarmingly lame , but Lee himself was sharp as a tack.

Spike Lee is not always the man his public persona would make him out to be. AP Photo Last year was a battle for Spike Lee - and not just thanks to his big-screen adaptation of James McBride's Second World War novel Miracle at St Anna.

Here's something interesting for all you Brooklyn film scholars and aficionados out there.

"People actually thought that young black Americans would riot across the country because of this film," writer-director Spike Lee says.

Dubrece Smith was downsized in December, but that's only made her more determined to pursue her dream -- running a day spa chain.

Spike makes his most boring New York story yet. Brian Miller Published on January 08, 2003 WHAT HAPPENED TO Spike Lee? Where is the wit and humor of She's Gotta Have It ? Where is the heat and fire of Do the Right Thing ? None of those qualities are apparent in 25th Hour , a terrible film about three terribly boring white guys who find it terribly ...

Spike Lee's still got game. The Brooklyn-based filmmaker brings a full-court press to New York's 2009 Tribeca Film Festival.

A Spike Lee comedy about life at a black Southern college: fraternities, football, student protests, everything.