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Spike Lee's 'Do the Right Thing' turns 20

 

Published 6/28/2009 at Lohud.com: Entertainment

"People actually thought that young black Americans would riot across the country because of this film," writer-director Spike Lee says. "That's how crazy it was." The 1989 film about racial tensions in a Brooklyn neighborhood got people talking. They still are. (link)

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