Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing imagines escalating racial tensions brought to tragic violence by a particularly hot summer in 1989, on a street in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. Mookie (Lee) delivers ...

Actor, director, producer and writer Spike Lee was born Shelton Jackson Lee on March 20, 1957, in Atlanta, Georgia, and soon moved to Fort Greene. Growing up in a relatively well-off African ...