Spike Lee is awkwardly caught between nobility and pulp with his latest, Miracle at St. Anna. The film plays minute to minute like a Sam Fuller-esque two-fister, but those minutes add up, ...

Spike Lee has had his ups and downs, but he has never been an ineffective filmmaker before. But now we have "Miracle at St. Anna," the first time Lee has made a movie that is certifiably dull and ...

In Spike Lee’s long and eclectic career, “Miracle at St. Anna” is easily his most technically ambitious film. After acclaimed character dramas (“Malcolm X,” “Do the Right Thing”), some ill-fated ...

Gen. Colin Powell was able to rise to the top ranks of the military because the armed forces made one of the nation's most successful efforts to create a color-blind system of merit-based advancement.