Do the Right Thing: 25 Years Later

On June 30^th 1989, nearly 25 years ago, Spike Lee’s classic film Do the Right Thing was released in theaters. To say it caused a stir would be an understatement. Some critics felt it would instigate race riots, and its subject matter of race and racism was addressed so forthrightly and so plainly, that it seemed like a new vanguard in the way racism…