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Sugar Water: Black and/or White

Robert Cass June 30, 2009 18

Writer-producer-director Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing opened in theaters on June 30, 1989. “White people still ask me why Mookie threw the [trash] can through the window” at the film’s climax, he recently

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Sugar Water: White Men Can’t Write About Al Jarreau Yet

Robert Cass February 24, 2008 4

Last Sunday I said I would find time to write about Al Jarreau in the coming week, but a few days ago Jeff Giles told me to put my ode to the seven-time Grammy

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