- Spike Lee becomes the latest black celeb to ‘feel the Bern’. On Tuesday, influential filmmaker Spike Lee became the latest prominent African-American figure to endorse Sen. Bernie Sanders’ insurgent 2016 candidacy in the lead-up to the South Carolina Democratic presidential primary. http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/spike-lee-becomes-the-latest-black-celeb-feel-the-bern 28 comments politics