{"id":13378,"date":"2018-09-04T09:41:24","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T15:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/?p=13378"},"modified":"2018-09-04T09:41:24","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T15:41:24","slug":"cc-featured-in-new-spike-lee-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/2018\/09\/cc-featured-in-new-spike-lee-film\/","title":{"rendered":"CC Featured in New Spike Lee Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">CC is featured in filmmaker Spike Lee\u2019s new film, \u201c<span class=\"s1\"><b>BlacKkKlansman<\/b><\/span>,\u201d which tells the true story of Ron Stallworth, the first black detective in the Colorado Springs Police Department, who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan during the 1970s. Stallworth, whose memoir \u201cBlack Klansman\u201d serves as the basis for the film, moved to Colorado Springs at age 19. He joined the police force via a cadet program aimed at increasing diversity and, at 22, became the youngest detective in the history of the department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Members of CC\u2019s Black Student Union play a prominent, if fictional, role in the film, with Laura Harrier of Marvel Studio\u2019s \u201cSpider-Man: Homecoming\u201d fame playing Patrice Dumas. \u201cMy character, Patrice, is an amalgamation of people I spoke to who had been in the Black Student Union at CC, as well as influenced by Kathleen Cleaver and Angela Davis,\u201d says Harrier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CC is featured in filmmaker Spike Lee\u2019s new film, \u201cBlacKkKlansman,\u201d which tells the true story of Ron Stallworth, the first black detective in the Colorado Springs Police Department, who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan during the 1970s. Stallworth, whose memoir \u201cBlack Klansman\u201d serves as the basis for the film, moved to Colorado Springs at age&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":952,"featured_media":13235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-13378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-summer-2018","tag-news-from-campus"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2018\/08\/CC-BUL-SUM18-05-NewsSpikeLee.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/952"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13378"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13514,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13378\/revisions\/13514"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}