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Congratulations to Spike Lee for finally winning his first Oscar!  On Sunday night, the A-listers of the entertainment industry came together for the 91st Academy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles, California. Although everyone was extremely happy for Lee…Donald Trump not so much.  Monday morning, Trump made jabs at film director …

This has been one hell of a Black History Month, but the 2019 Academy Awards may have saved us as we approach the last days of February. The 2019 Academy Awards glimmered with the epitome of Black Excellence. While every Black hero may not have won in their category, Black …

Spike Lee is nominated for six Academy Awards at this year’s Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay- but the celebrated filmmaker with a long history of Oscar snubs is self-aware enough to not take his nominations personally. According to The Hollywood Reporter, at the Icon Mann …

Spike Lee says Christopher Columbus was a terrorist. Spike Lee is well-known for keeping it real when it comes to politics, race and other social issues. During an interview on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” the iconic director called Christopher Columbus – the man who claimed to have discovered America – a …

Fresh off his award-winning performance as the Black Panther in the record-breaking Marvel film, “Black Panther,” Chadwick Boseman is taking his talents to Netflix for a brand new Spike Lee Joint, “Da 5 Bloods.” According to Variety, Spike Lee has teamed up with Boseman and Netflix for his next film, …

Within the first week of Black History Month, Liam Neeson revealed his past urge to kill “some black bastard,” Michelle Rodriguez defended Neeson’s statement, claiming an interracial kiss eliminates racism, and Gucci promoted and apologized for a sweater that resembled blackface; and quite frankly, we are tired.  In fact, amid …

The recent influx of rising black filmmakers in the industry has introduced a spotlight on screenwriters like Ryan Coogler, (Black Panther) Barry Jenkins, (Moonlight) and Steve McQueen (Widows). ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ In a recent interview with The Wrap, Spike Lee sat down to discuss the recent increase, saying he hopes that it continues.  …

The Golden Globes has released its list of nominees! On Thursday (Dec. 6), the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s annual ceremony announced the nominations for the 2019 Golden Globe Awards.  Films like “BlackPanther,” “BlacKkKlansman,” “If Beale Street Could Talk,” “Bohemian Rhapsody” and “A Star Is Born” are on the list for …

Iconic indie filmmaker, Spike Lee, who gave us one of this year’s biggest movies, ”BlacKkKlansman,” will receive the Palm Springs International Film Festival’s Career Achievement Award at the 30th annual awards gala on January 3rd. Festival chairman Harold Matzner said, “Spike Lee has been an outstanding warrior for equal rights …

Spike Lee is once again bringing a one-man stage show by Roger Guenveur Smith to the big screen, this time, to tell the story of the late social reformer, abolitionist, orator and writer, Frederick Douglass.  In the latest collaboration between Lee and Smith, whose relationship expands through three decades, the …

  It was no secret back in the 80’s and 90’s, director and actor Spike Lee did not like police and the justice system too much. Remember “Do The Right Thing”? Well it seems like these days, he’s taking a different approach and working together with the NYPD to improve …

Spike Lee is no stranger to providing his candid thoughts regarding his disdain for Donald Trump — or as he often refers to him as, “Agent Orange.” On Monday during a New York screening of his new film, “BlacKkKlansman,” Lee added to his growing list of comments directed at Trump …

On Monday, Spike Lee premiered his new film “BlacKKlansman” starring John David Washington, Adam Driver, and Topher Grace at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival.   The film, which is set in 1979, is based on the book ‘Black Klansman’ by Ron Stallworth and the story of his infiltration of the …

Spike Lee’s film “BlacKkKlansman” is about the first black police officer in Colorado Springs, Colorado and is set to hit U.S. theaters on August 10th of this year. The release date is just two days before the one year anniversary of the protest in Charlottesville, Virginia, where white nationalists and …

  Spike Lee may have been tapped to direct Marvel’s next movie “Nightwatch.”   #Nightwatch was written by “Luke Cage” showrunner #CheoHodariCoke and follows the story of a Black scientist named Dr. Kevin Trench and his alter ego Nightwatch. The Nightwatch story joined the #Marvel universe in 1993 in the …

– blogged by @lanaladonna It looks like someone else had to have it! We know her as Nola Darling from the Spike Lee Netflix series, “She’s Gotta Have It.” Marvel, on the other hand, wants to bring the beautiful DeWanda Wise to the big screen. Details on her character have …

blogged by @tianalaneetv Spike Lee and Jordan Peele are teaming up for a new film, “Black Klansman”. The film will be an adaption of a memoir about a Black police officer who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan. Son of Denzel Washington and star of HBO’s “Ballers”, John David Washington, is …