How Spike Lee and a mighty tradition saved me September 06, 2022, 01:22:57 PM How Spike Lee and a mighty tradition saved me[html]Growing up in Brooklyn and Queens in the 1980s, I was saved by the study of Black history. It helped me to make sense of the police shootings of Black people, the segregated schools I attended and the all-Black neighborhoods that I lived in. Beginning in childhood, my mother became my history teacher and intellectual raconteur.[/html]Source: How Spike Lee and a mighty tradition saved me (http://ht**://www.cnn.c**/2022/09/06/opinions/third-reconstruction-black-history-saved-me-joseph/index.html) Quote Selected