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Some are wondering why Matthew Broderick was fined $175 in 1988 – let’s take a moment to look back at the tragedy behind the story...

BlacKkKlansman, Channel 4, 9pm Spike Lee’s 2018 film is based on a 2014 memoir by retired Colorado Springs police officer Ron Stallworth, the first African-American on the city’s force, in which he tells how he infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan in the late 1970s. Hence the spellcheck-taxing title. Unsurprisingly given the premise, Lee’s adaptation is a black comedy. Stallworth is played by future Tenet star John David Washington. We first meet him in the early 1970s as he’s reassigned fr...