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Brooklyn Bound

Born Shelton Jackson Lee in 1957 in Atlanta, Ga to a teacher mom and jazz musician dad, the future filmmaker moved to Brooklyn New York as a child. During his childhood, Lee’s mother gives him the nickname “Spike.”

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