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Civic Practice Scholar Karlyn Boens on Spike Lee’s ‘Chi-Raq’

I saw Chi-Raq last week. There were only four people in the theater, including myself. Afterward, we headed toward the exit in silence. No one dared to talk about it.

December 23, 2015