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BlacKkKlansman is a 2018 American biographical crime comedy-drama film directed by Spike Lee and written by Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz, Kevin Willmott and Lee, loosely based on the 2014 memoir Black Klansman by Ron Stallworth.
Aug 10, 2018 · When Spike Lee first heard about Ron Stallworth—an African-American detective who infiltrated the Colorado Springs K.K.K. in the late 1970s—the filmmaker couldn’t fathom his story being true.
Aug 9, 2018 · The movie is based on the real story of Ron Stallworth, the first African-American police officer and detective in Colorado Springs, Colo., who masterminded an undercover investigation into...
Jul 11, 2018 · The BlacKkKlansman true story confirms that in the 1970s Ron Stallworth became the first African-American police officer and detective to work for the Colorado Springs Police Department. He joined the department as a cadet on November 13, 1972.
The story begins in 1978, when Stallworth was the "Jackie Robinson" of the Colorado Springs Police Department, the first black detective on the force. Flipping through the local newspaper, he found a short classified ad for the KKK with a P.O. box address listed for more information.
Aug 10, 2018 · While Ron Stallworth in BlacKkKlansman is pretty accurate to the real man (who Lee and Washington met before making the film), the same can't be said for Adam Driver's Flip Zimmerman. A white police officer did successfully infiltrate the KKK, but there are some key factual differences.
Aug 11, 2018 · In director Spike Lee's latest film, BlacKkKlansman, John David Washington plays Ron Stallworth, a black police detective who successfully infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan in the 1970s.
Aug 17, 2018 · But no, that man really existed. His name was Ron Stallworth, and as an officer with the Colorado Springs Police Department, he really did talk on the phone with local Klansmen and with Duke....
Aug 23, 2018 · Read the true story behind BlacKkKlansman, the latest film from director Spike Lee. In October 1978 Ron Stallworth, the first black detective in the history of the Colorado Springs Police...
Read the true story behind BlacKkKlansman, the latest film from director Spike Lee. In October 1978 Ron Stallworth, the first black detective in the history of the Colorado Springs Police...
