Just as relevant today as it was over thirty years ago.

No there are and were other voices at the time and also, in 1989, you could make and distribute a film like Do The Right Thing still. These days, it is a little more difficult to get the general public to see movies like this, due to the fact that these controversial movies just aren't getting made and if they do get made, the distributing and promoting of these films is poorly done. I am sure that people still want to see movies that make people think after they are over. Black Panther is a great movie and I am glad it was made, but there are still many stories about the black experience that need to be made and seen by moviegoers.

Wait. How did Spice Lee introduce "Black Panther" to a different general public? I don't recall him being involved in the production of that film.

This was a movie that I would have probably not chosen to watch, back when it was made I was a young white guy and the idea of the music involved put me off, and I had no idea who Spike Lee was and knew nothing about his previous movies.

But I rented it a few years after release, and I was shocked at how much I responded to it.

The first thing I will say is the line 'Elvis was a hero to some, but he never meant shit to me' in the Fight The Power song resonated with me. I knew other white guys that were angry at that line. Never understood it. Your heroes are your heros, and no-one should dictate to anyone who those heroes should be.

The other thing I took away from the movie was that it showed that the 'melting pot principal is an ideal that rarely works. In the beginning there appears to be a harmony, at least in some sense with different cultures living side by side. But very soon the prejudices start to rear their ugly head. Tension builds, and the inevitable happens

A very powerful movie.