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Spike Lee: “My path in life is to speak the truth – I’m not gonna run from it”

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18.06.2020 - 17:03

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For a long time, Spike Lee has had his finger on the pulse of America. In 1992, he screened Malcolm X for studio execs on the same day that four white cops who brutally beat unarmed Black construction worker Rodney King were acquitted of assault.

Two years ago, he ended BlacKkKlansman with footage of the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, which saw a white supremacist murder peaceful counter-protester Heather Heyer.

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