Spike Lee

Ashley Clark, the London-born, Jersey City-based critic, historian, film programmer, curatorial director of the Criterion Collection, and author, is bringing an 8-film series “back home” to the Brooklyn Academy of Music this weekend, with a project that reflects the work of his life and career. He has put together a representative sampling of the 100 movies…

From color to short cuts, braids and extensions, there is no hairstyle that LaWanda Pierre, up-and-coming hairstylist, cannot do. Originally born in Houston (with a stint in Atlanta in between), Pierre made Brooklyn her home at the age of nine and lived here ever since. Like most young black women in the 90s, she ran…