Spike Lee, film director, producer and screenwriter, is renowned for bodys of work that explores African American experience visited the New York State Writers Institute at the University of Albany this evening.

He was joined on stage by Kaleem Aftab who authored Spike Lee: That's My Story and I'm Sticking to It. For just over an hour the two discussed Lee's career in film, where & how he got started, his successes & box office failures, but they mostly talked about how Lee has challenged racial stereotypes and addressed controversial subjects in his films.

Following that they allowed for about 10 questions from the audience and while I expected them to be heavy on racial areas they were suprising more obscure inquiries in his less popular box off films like Bamboozled, Crooklyn, & Girl 6.