It’s junior year for the Winchester crew and like most college students, junior year presents new identities. Joelle Brooks (Ashley Blaine Featherson) takes on two new titles in season three: one being the new host of the school radio talk show Dear White People, and the other as Reggie’s lady. DWP is still centered around black capitalism and...
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February 12, 2018May 7, 2024OP-ED
School Daze: Class Still in Session 30 Years Later
Thirty years ago, during Black History Month. Spike Lee returned with his second joint School Daze. Who knew exposing black college life on the big screen would be so impactful. Daze was actually written before Lee’s She’s Gotta Have It, but budget prevented it from becoming his first release. School Daze, which was originally titled...
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November 30, 2017May 7, 2024OP-ED
She’s STILL Gotta Have It
Filmmaker Spike Lee reboots his first joint into a ten episode Netflix series. She’s Gotta Have It is based in modern-day Fort Greene Brooklyn, and chronicles the life of the sex-positive, polyamorous, pan-sexual Nola Darling, (DeWanda Wise) and the three men she’s dating all at once! Three completely different men, from different walks of life...