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Discuss “Spike Lee berates cultural trends”

Speaking at the Byham Theatre last Thursday, Spike Lee addressed a large group of energetic fans who gave an ecstatic welcome to the controversial filmmaker. Lee, director of Mo’ Better Blues, The Original Kings of Comedy, and the biopic Malcolm X, came to Pittsburgh to talk about his films, his life, and his views, as part of the African American Cultural Center’s series of programs celebrating Black History Month.

Lee recently produced CSA: The Confederate States of America, a mockumentary about the eerie possibilities had the South won the Civil War. The film, directed by Kevin Willmott, approaches the situation from the angle of a British documentary about America with short, inflammatory “commercial” breaks where racist propaganda...

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Comment 1. Stan (Editor)
Feb 20, 2006 at 10:38 PM

Thank you for a very relevant and thought provoking article.

We have related items on our Urban Cartographer Online (eightcitiesmap.com) site at

http://www.eightcitiesmap.com/MLK-Today.htm

and

http://www.eightcitiesmap.com/introsplash6.htm

and

http://www.eightcitiesmap.com/doc_oops.htm

and

http://www.eightcitiesmap.com/terror_faces.htm

for starters.

Again thanks for your excellent and responsible journalism.

--30--
Stan

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