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b'Our cover story for the July/August issue is about Spike Lee\\u2019s BlacKkKlansman\\u2014a story about incredible events in America\\u2019s past that feel well-suited to our incredible present.\\xa0\\xa0\\u201cIn a case where the events of history improve upon the fantasies of fiction,\\xa0BlacKkKlansman, the latest Spike Lee joint, is based on the 2014 memoir written by Ron Stallworth, a black undercover police officer who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan in 1979,\\u201d Teo Bugbee writes in her feature. \\u201cHowever, Lee does not get lost in the details of Stallworth\\u2019s life story, and\\xa0BlacKkKlansman\\xa0is no straight biopic. Instead, it follows the beats of a traditional cop movie, where a man of the law is torn between allegiances in his efforts to solve a case. In this regard, the film represents the latest chapter in the underrated career of Spike Lee, genre filmmaker.\\u201d For this episode, I joined Bugbee and Ashley Clark of BAMcin\\xe9matek to discuss Lee\\u2019s wide-ranging, and chronically misunderstood, career.'