In the prescient, bold SCHOOL DAZE, Laurence Fishburne plays Dap, a socially conscious student at the fictional HBCU Mission College. When an anti-apartheid protest he is leading is interrupted by his friend Julian’s (Giancarlo Esposito) fraternity, and Mission’s board of trustees get antsy about Dap’s call for divestment from South Africa, tensions of power, race, and social responsibility rise to a fever pitch. Spike Lee loves an ending. The final shot of DO THE RIGHT THING pulls up and away from the Brooklyn street we’ve lived on for the last two hours; in SHE’S GOTTA HAVE IT, the cast breaks the fourth wall with a wink and a smile. With SCHOOL DAZE, Lee concludes with a fourth wall break again, imploring the audience—as he’s been doing the whole film (and his whole career)—to wake up, wake up, wake up.