Everett CollectionSpike Lee in Do the Right Thing, 1989. Stars: Spike Lee, Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Giancarlo Esposito, John Turturro. Director: Spike Lee Distributor: Universal Pictures Academy ...

In her 1989 Time review of Do the Right Thing, titled “He’s Got to Have It His Way,” Jeanne McDowell observed, “Looking for racism at every turn, [Lee] finds it.” An August 1990 cover of ...

Spike Lee‘s “Do the Right Thing” will be free to stream online until June 29. The 1989 film is also the American Film Institute‘s pick this week for its Movie Club. It will be accompanied ...

There were no riots. Dinkins was elected. Released in theaters on June 30, 1989, “Do the Right Thing” went on to have a successful run at the box office – if not as successful as Lee and his ...

Today marks the 25th anniversary of Do the Right Thing, Spike Lee’s third feature film and arguably his best. Following the denizens of a block in Bed-Stuy on the hottest day of the summer ...

June 30th marks the 30th anniversary of the release of Spike Lee’s 1989 masterpiece, “Do the Right Thing.” Controversial when it was first released (the media publicly speculated that it ...

It was life imitating art in the cruelest of ways. On July 17, 2014, in a scene captured on camera, Staten Island man Eric Garner was killed by members of the New York City Police Department who ...