SL: We have to educate ourselves and our minds to uplift the race. Historically Black colleges and universities are trying to address the underclass, but they have their own problems.
DI: Being a third-generation Morehouse College graduate, would you send your children to HBCUs? Is there still a need for Black colleges?
SL: HBCUs are still useful. I never saw them as self-segregating. I don’t think Notre Dame or Villanova see themselves as self-segregating.
I hope my son will go to Morehouse.
DI: Are universities doing a good job preparing the next generation of filmmakers?
SL: Education and filmmaking are two different things. My biggest influence as a filmmaker was Dr. Herb Eichelberger (at New York University). He was instrumental to my development as a filmmaker, and he urged me to do more and keep up. But otherwise, politically, I learned from just growing up in my house and listening to the people, my parents and my grandparents.
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