One of his former classmates was living in a tenement in Chicago, as shown in this untitled photograph from 1950. “He really paved the way,” Peter Kunhardt, Jr., a family friend and executive ...

"Since Sunday afternoon, I've been feeling kind of blue," said Spike Lee. "But this night has been uplifting." It was the end of the evening at Cipriani 42nd Street, dinner long served, and Lee ...