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Farrakhan's voice and the impact of his group's antidrug and anticrime work are resonating far beyond the boundaries of the Nation of Islam. Black filmmaker Spike Lee has spotlighted Farrakhan in his two most recent movies, School Daze and Do the Right Thing, and rap artists like Public Enemy, Big Daddy Kane and others are now wearing the Islamic star and crescent...
Thus Crouch dismisses black filmmaker Spike Lee as a "middle-class would-be street Negro." He puts down Toni Morrison's moving novel Beloved as no more than an effort "to enter American slavery into the big-time martyr ratings contest." He castigates James Baldwin for undermining the moral basis of the civil rights movement with essays that "transformed white America into Big Daddy and the Negro movement into an obnoxious, pouting adolescent demanding the car keys...
...Christopher Reid) is grounded because of his bad report card. What's Kid to do? Sneak out, of course. Writer-director Reggie Hudlin gives zip and lots of laughs to this sharp, hip-hop comedy that blends a John Hughes-like ear for dialogue with the visual flair of Spike...
...that the filmmakers and the lead actors (including rap artists Kid 'N Play and Full Force) are all middle-class blacks. The script virtually carries warning labels for unwary teens. Drinking is bad; sex without a condom is irresponsible. Rude and righteous, House Party is John Hughes divided by Spike Lee. "I wanted to make a movie that I had not seen," says writer-director Reginald Hudlin, 28, "but a movie that I wanted...
Playing without injured middle hitter Brian Ehrlich, the Crimson was unable to spike consistently from the outside. MIT Coach Sean Tierney said he felt that this unreliable play from Harvard's long-range spikers was the key to the match...