
Spike Lee Under Fire for “Chi-raq” Trailer
Filmmaker Spike Lee is taking criticism for the trailer of “Chi-raq” which was released last Tuesday. The movie is a satire about women in Chicago withholding sex from their boyfriends and husbands as a protest to gun violence. The name Chi-raq is a combination of Chicago and Iraq and is meant to compare the death tolls of Chicago to those in Iraq which is currently a war zone. According to Lee’s trailer, “homicides in Chicago, Illinois have surpassed the death toll of Americ