On February 12, Spike Lee’s second feature, School Daze, celebrated its 35th anniversary. The genre-bending musical dramedy captured the social ills of the Black experience at a fictitious HBCU in 1988, spawning on-screen replicas and homages for years to come. From A Different World to today’s grown-ish, the Black college experience became a staple of … Continue reading Wake Up: 35 Years of School Daze with Roger Guenveur Smith