Times critics Justin Chang and Glenn Whipp discuss why Spike Lee's 1989 film "Do the Right Thing" is one of the great ... that Lee also included a contrasting quote from Martin Luther King Jr.

Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing (1989) has come back to haunt us. Not as a prophetic vision of racial dysfunction come to pass more than 30 years after the film’s original release, but as an ...

Spike Lee’s seminal Do the Right Thing is a film with several enduring legacies: ... The film famously ends with two incisive quotes from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X, ...

Spike Lee speaks about “Do The Right Thing” at 20. ... Lee responded by adding two quotes at the end. The first, from Martin Luther King Jr., ...

The race riots critics said “Do the Right Thing” would cause never materialized. It took the real world, a viral video, and the Rodney King beating to make Spike Lee's prophecy come true.

As a filmmaker, I perceive Spike Lee’s films as his acts of rebellion against corruption in society—something I love and ...

For a good while now, I've been allowed to write article upon article about movies. In the articles, I usually reference or outright mention the 1984 film Gremlins, citing it as my favorite movie ...

{mosads}”When Bernie gets into the White House he will do the right thing,” Lee says in the 60-second ad, a riff on his 1998 movie “Do the Right Thing.”He also mentions Sanders attendance ...

Spike Lee's "Do the Right Thing" exploded onto screens in the summer of 1989, and nothing the Fort Greene-based filmmaker had done prior was any preparation for it. Skip to content.

Rap performers use Malcolm X’s words like drumbeats. College students carry copies of his autobiography around like bibles. Street vendors in Harlem hawk 14 different styles of T-shirts beari… ...