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Pardon the play on the title of the 1988 Oscar nominated Jeff Bridges film but as I found out after speaking with David Tucker Jr, the visionary behind Peep This Entertainment, the production company that for the past two years has made the movie-making dreams of Birmingham area students come true, the film's title suits his story too.

Director Fred Sternfeld, Kyle Primous and Kristi Little rehearse a scene in Karamu Theatre's "Yellowman." For Americans of African descent, race is not just a matter of black and white.

Spike Lee's always been outspoken -- bashing fellow filmmakers for ignoring black contributions at Iwo Jima or for being too white to direct Malcolm X . Sometimes he has a point, sometimes he's just popping off.

What's good, everybody? It's been a week since returning from Cali and there's no place like home.

Just as they felt about Spike Lee's film "School Daze" 21 years ago, some African Americans are giving a chilly reception to Chris Rock's new movie, "Good Hair," because each film in its way reveals something about black people that a lot of black people don't believe is anybody else's business.

After Shepard Faireya s a oe Art for Obama a comes a oe Design for Obama ,a a book of posters for the president.

When I was watching Good Hair , I was disappointed that the filmmakers didn't use this clip from Spike Lee's 1990 collegiate musical School Daze , with the straight-haired girls facing off against the nappy-haired ones in a dance number.

I personally think Spike Lee is the image of witch he speaks in the comment made towards Tyler Perry.

Caption: Spike Lee and Tonya Lews Lee 6th annual Keep a Child Alive New York City, USA .... Outspoken moviemaker SPIKE LEE has picked a new film fight with actor/director TYLER PERRY after suggesting the MADEA GOES TO JAIL star's hit films are a step backwards for African-Americans. The Do The Right Thing director accuses Perry of "coonery and ...

There are artists who speak of the struggle or their hardships, who express where they've been and what they experienced clearly to their respected audiences.

The subject of follicle prejudice in the African-American community is a fascinating one that's been rather shortchanged in mainstream entertainment; the last time I remember it really boiling to the surface is in the brutally honest "Straight and Nappy" production number in Spike Lee's 1988 effort School Daze .

You are my sunshine when it's raining outside Somehow you brighten my day and just to hear you say How are, what are you doing, or you sure you're okay And when I say I'm good you know better it's so ironic That you know me You do know me So in the mist of it all we try to do the right thing But let the truth be known we're both human beings And of ...

This pretty, stage-trained singer, dancer and actress got her start singing in church as a small child.

The outlaw US directors of the 80s have been absorbed into the mainstream, but a new gang of edgy film-makers has emerged, writes Jason Solomons Joshua Leonard and Mark Duplass in Humpday.

Spike Lee's third writing/directing effort may not feel as volatile as it did when it came out in 1989--some reactionary journalists actually believed that it might incite riots--but this warts/all look at race in America as it affects one Bed-Stuy block on the hottest day of the year still packs a tremendous punch.

Barack Obama met Michelle Robinson the summer he turned 28, following his first year at Harvard Law School.

By Alicia Cruz Senior writer TheBlackurbantimes Hola mi gente y todas mi gente! Que es la que? If you're a Spike Lee fan , you probably agree that "Malcolm X' is one of his best films.

This week, on its 20th anniversary, Jason Solomons meets director Spike Lee to talk about the legacy of Do the Right Thing, its profound effect on American independent cinema and the role it played in bringing the Obamas together.

In Section: NY comPRESSed >> Posted In: Film And TV , Media , Manhattan , Entertainment Posted By: Mike Spence Remember when Alphabet City was so dangerous it was considered part of Brooklyn? Nowadays who doesn't have a friend who lives on Avenue D? Sure, there are still gunshots , but gone are the days when he would be living in perpetual fear.

At times, central Harlem seems to be an urban scene straight out of central casting: Step off the No.