| No Images? Click here   By Nataliei Hopkins I live for Spike Lee’s provocations. Growing up, Spike Lee’s anthropological film-length essays were vital cheat sheets on race relations, entertaining while informing me of the strange social codes and unspoken rules of life in America. This was especially true when my dad moved our family — kicking and screaming — from a comfortable, comparatively boring life in Canada, full of decency and upward mobility, to Indiana where dad got a computer consulting contract, but also where the Ku Klux Klan thrived in the 1980s and 1990s. I had hoped the critically acclaimed “BlacKkKlansman” might add another layer of artistry and understanding to racism in America. But either Spike is losing his touch or I have been in America too long because the critically acclaimed film left me feeling triggered, numb and more than a little bit manipulated.  In case you missed it
 What's trending Throughout the latest episode of "Insecure," Issa is forced to navigate the many faces of rejection. She texts Daniel to check up on him, only to receive a half-assed response. She can’t find housing, and then, in a meeting with our fave Kelli, she discovers that she can’t even afford to live on her own. It’s evident that if Issa wants better, she’s gonna have to stop playing and do better.On this edition of Run That Back, Taryn Finley and Julia Craven discuss being pushed aside at work, the damage often done by well-meaning white folks and Daniel’s fragile-ass ego. A documentary on Rihanna that has been in the works for the last three years will be coming out in about two months, according to director Peter Berg.Berg and Rihanna originally worked together on the singer’s first film, “Battleship” (2012), which was loosely based on the Milton Bradley board game. Berg is perhaps best known for directing “Friday Night Lights” (2004) and creating the subsequent TV show.“I think she’s an extraordinary young woman and [the documentary] really is kind of a pretty comprehensive profile of what goes into making her this talent that she is,” Berg told Slash Film on Monday. “The work ethic, the talent, luck, the hustle, the vision.”
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