Spike Lee’s Do The Right Thing: A Retrospective Analysis, In The Age of George Floyd.

Adebayo Adeniran
7 min readApr 19, 2021

A look back at a film that has aged incredibly well and remains powerfully relevant today, in its tackling of prejudice, gentrification, police brutality, geriatric Black love and everything else in between.

Spike Lee via Wikimedia commons

If you had asked me prior to writing this article, what my favorite spike lee movie was, Malcolm X, Mo Better…

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Adebayo Adeniran

A lifelong bibliophile, who seeks to unleash his energy on as many subjects as possible