Recently, there was a tribute concert held for rapper MF DOOM at Tyler, The Creator’s music festival, Camp Flog Gnaw. Though I was not in attendance, my YouTube feed recommended me a visual and ...Read More
For a class presentation, we showed a clip from “The Big Short” to explain the 2008 banking crisis. I realized I had never seen the movie, so I decided to watch it over break and thoroughl...Read More
During this Thanksgiving break, I had the chance to watch Malcolm X, another piece of work by Spike Lee which he presents the racial tensions in the American society in a completely different forms co...Read More
Ambition is a tricky thing. It can push you to greatness, but it often comes with a price—and not just in the “be careful what you wish for” kind of way. Citizen Kane (1941) and The Soci...Read More
There are some scenes in the film Do The Right Thing (Lee, 1989) that seem to be shot in such an unconventional way that it forces you to consider how such techniques help construct the overarching me...Read More
Finally watching Do The Right Thing was a truly rewarding experience because I’d often heard it described as one of those films like Coming to America or The Wiz that every Black person needs to...Read More
Do The Right Thing is a film in 1989 written, directed by, and surprisingly enough, starring, Spike Lee. It is an influential film that explores themes such as race, social class, and social justice t...Read More
Something that stuck out to me about Do the Right Thing, was its connection and distortion of real life events. Based on the Howard Beach incident, Spike Lee’s film follows a community’s t...Read More
What does it mean to “do the right thing?” Being “right” can have a different meaning person to person. While watching the film Do the Tight Thing by Spike Lee so many differen...Read More
Throughout all of our educations, Martin Luther King Jr. has remained at the center of the Civil Rights Movement, rightfully so, as he was the main leader. However, another leader of the movement who ...Read More