via BlackAmericaWeb: Spike Lee has directed some of out favorite movies like Malcolm X, Do The Right Thing and many more. The filmmaker is now gearing up to direct a movie about Frederick Douglass. The film is an adaptation from the play Frederick Douglass Now written by and starring Roger Guenveur Smith (Queen Sugar). Douglass was a Maryland native and a former slave as […]
The West Coast rapper – best known for his debut album Doggystyle and for smoking weed in public – urged viewers not to support projects in which Black people are mistreated, courtesy of a profanity-laced Instagram video.
there’s a moment about one-third of the way through Spike Lee’s new documentary Michael Jackson’s Journey From Motown to Off the Wall in which the Jackson estate’s archivist pulls out a yellowed, frayed letter and reads aloud. Written after Michael and his brothers, collectively known as the Jackson 5, had left Motown and were recording […]
Jasmyne Cannick joined Roland Martin Wednesday on NewsOne Now to discuss her blog post calling for liberal Hollywood to boycott the Academy Awards and said, "I think at the end of the day, it's an easy out to call on Blacks to boycott the Oscars -- if every single one of us tuned out and didn't watch the Oscars, it really wouldn't hurt their bottom line."
In the late 1960s, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences faced an identity crisis as the taste of its members, many of them veterans of the old studio system, began to seem out of step with the rapidly changing times. Grappling to reward both relevance and excellence, then-academy President Gregory Peck began recruiting […]
Invoking the Rev. Martin Luther King’s legacy on his birthday, two prominent African-Americans announced Monday that they will boycott this year’s Academy Awards over a lack of diversity among nominees. Filmmaker Spike Lee and actress Jada Pinkett Smith posted separate messages Monday saying they would not be attending the February 28 ceremony. The Oscars have […]
Roland Martin talks with some of the hottest directors, actors, and musicians who continue to leave their mark on pop culture.
Spike Lee talks with Roland Martin about the epidemic of violence in Chicago and about his new movie, "Chi-Raq."
Audiences are finally getting a look at Spike Lee’s much-anticipated new film, “Chiraq.” A trailer for the controversial project, which explores the epidemic of gun violence in Chicago, debuted online Tuesday. It features a star-studded cast – Samuel L. Jackson, John Cusack, Nick Cannon, Angela Bassett and Dave Chappelle, just to name a few – […]
Twenty-six years after Spike Lee released one of his most iconic films, Do The Right Thing, Jimmy Kimmel decided to create a spoof entitled, Do the WHITE Thing. The four minute clip pokes fun at the immense gentrification Brooklyn has undergone over the last two decades. We wonder if the spoof got Spike Lee’s […]
During the NAACP Image Awards, Writer-Director, Actor, Producer and Author Spike Lee was presented with this year’s President’s Award. The NAACP President’s Award, chosen by…
June 30 is the 25th anniversary of “Do the Right Thing” and the Obamas share a special connection to the film. President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama went on their first date 25 years ago and saw the Spike Lee joint. And for that sentimental reason, the Obamas taped a special message before a screening of the film at Los Angeles […]
