It’s been 35 years since Spike Lee’s sophomore feature film, School Daze, brought cinema’s first exploration into the lives of students at a historically Black college and tackled subjects that weren’t widely discussed, not just in college films, but in American cinema as a whole.
In School Daze, issues such as colorism, hair bias, divisions within the Black community, and the importance of Historically Black/College Universities serve as catalysts for many of the conflicts.
Lee, a graduate of the historically Black Morehouse College, examines and delves into these topics with the hopes of doing more than just making a film.
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