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Twenty years ago future President Obama and First Lady Michelle had their first date at a showing of “Do The Right Thing.” I was at UCLA at the time and saw Spike Lee’s third feature at a ...

(Originally published by the Daily News on June 30, 1989. This story was written by Kathleen Carroll.) “Do the Right Thing” is already stirring people up, which is just what Spike Lee had in mind.

In August 1989, just a month after “Do the Right Thing” came out, Yusuf Hawkins, a black 16-year-old, was shot to death in the Italian-American working-class neighborhood of Bensonhurst ...

Rosie Perez doesn’t have an especially big part, but it’s hard to imagine a splashier debut than the one Spike Lee gives her. The credits are nothing but her dancing ...

“Do the Right Thing” (Spike Lee, 1989) at 11 a.m. on FX. Lee’s breakthrough 1989 comedy-drama is a kaleidoscopic portrait of a Brooklyn black neighborhood block on a hot summer day and the ...

Spike Lee reflects on continued police brutality since the 1989 release of Do the Right Thing. The director called into the The Tonight Show to discuss his new short film 3 Brothers, the protests ...

The #UltimateSummerMovie Showdown is under way, and voters have chosen “Do the Right Thing” (1989) as their winner for Week 9, dedicated to movies first released in theaters from June 26 to ...