Director Spike Lee was in studio for ESPN2’s “First Take” to discuss his movie “2 Fists Up,” which documents the University of Missouri football team’s boycott amid the Concerned Student 1950 movement. The discussion moved to Lee’s other film “Chi-Raq,” which
Actor John Cusack accused the West of “legitimizing murder” with its response to the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks while speaking to reporters on Tuesday at the Berlin Film Festival.
Director Spike Lee criticized the United States as a “volatile” and dangerous country, and questioned Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s mental competency during an event at the Berlin Film Festival on Tuesday.
Spike Lee will boycott this year’s Academy Awards after the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominated exclusively white actors in top categories for a second consecutive year.
In an extended interview on Meet the Press, film director Spike Lee said he wanted his new film, “Chi-Raq,” to touch on “black-on-black violence” and make the point that “it’s not always policemen” killing black people.
During the December 27 airing of Meet the Press, film director Spike Lee talked about the number of persons shot and killed in Chicago and suggested those deaths do not get attention because “it’s not Sandy Hook.”
Chicago native Chance the Rapper unloaded on Spike Lee Friday, calling the director’s latest film Chi-Raq “exploitive” and “offensive” and criticizing the director’s recent statement that his film would “save lives.”
Tuesday on MSNBC, host Tamron Hall interviewed filmmaker Spike Lee about his new movie, “Chi-Raq.” Lee explained what he wanted people to take away from that movie and opined about the plight of young Americans in black communities, specific Chicago
In an interview published November 25, actress Angela Bassett suggested some Chicago leaders are having trouble with Spike Lee’s film Chi-Raq because they are embarrassed by the gun violence in their city.
Spike Lee is a vocal proponent of the Black Lives Matter movement, but believes the black community must “speak out” against black-on-black crime if they wish to see structural changes in policing and community relations.
Spike Lee picked up an honorary Oscar at the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences annual Governors Awards on Saturday, and used his acceptance speech to blast the lack of diversity in Hollywood — and issue a warning to white entertainment industry executives.
Director Spike Lee takes aim at the NRA in an interview about his new film “Chi-raq,” which he says is “going to save lives.” The film retells the classical Greek comedy “Lysistrata” against the backdrop of modern day violence in Chicago.
On November 11, film director Spike Lee told CNN’s Anderson Cooper that he believes “social media is partly to blame” for the surge in “gun violence” and firearm-related homicides in Chicago.
In an interview with Chicago magazine, director Spike Lee described Chicago Mayor and former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel as a “bully” over the mayor’s alleged attempts to censor an upcoming film about Chicago’s gun violence and black-on-black crime.
