Spike Lee’s latest is one of his best.

There are the small stories about people struggling to find their own personal states of grace.

Lowercase story vs. uppercase History.Love & Basketballvs.12 Years A Slave.

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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at the beginning of the American Civil Rights Movement.

From whence came the seed of greatness?

Ostensibly, theyre there to recover the remains of their fallen squad leader (Chadwick Boseman).

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(And Lee deploys a lot of newsreel footage to back that treatise up.)

Nicole Beharie and Alexis Chikaeze in ‘Miss Juneteenth’

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