PVAMU Kevin Powell Masterclass: Library Resources and Research : FILMS (watch these films)

“Do The Right Thing’ by Spike Lee 

Do the Right Thing is a 1989 American comedy-drama film produced, written, and directed by Spike Lee. It stars Lee, Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Richard Edson, Giancarlo Esposito, Bill Nunn, John Turturro, and Samuel L. Jackson, and is the feature film debut of Martin Lawrence and Rosie Perez. The story explores a Brooklyn neighborhood's simmering racial tension between its African-American residents and the Italian-American owners of a local pizzeria, culminating in tragedy and violence on a hot summer day. >> Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0; This page was last edited on 24 October 2022, at 08:19 (UTC)

“I Like It Like That” by Darnell Martin 

I Like It Like That is a 1994 American comedy-drama film about the trials and tribulations of a young Puerto Rican man and a half Jamaican Puerto Rican American woman living in a poverty-stricken New York City neighborhood in the South Bronx. The film stars Lauren Velez, Jon Seda, Lisa Vidal, Griffin Dunne, Jesse Borrego and Rita Moreno, and was written and directed by Darnell Martin who, in her filmmaking debut, became the first African-American female filmmaker to take helm of a film produced by a major film studio. >> Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0; This page was last edited on 4 October 2022, at 10:38 (UTC).