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Spike Lee on Do The Right Thing's legacy


It has been 20 years since the release of Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing. The director tells Jason Solomons how his films - including She's Gotta Have It, Malcolm X and She Hate Me - have changed Hollywood, and how they haven't

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