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Posted: 2016-03-09T19:09:17Z | Updated: 2016-06-01T18:56:15Z

For his most recent project, director Spike Lee focuses on the protests that rocked the University of Missouri last fall.

The short film, titled "2 Fists Up," is a part of Lee's "Spike Lee's Lil' Joints" series. It includes the story of how Mizzou's football team stood in solidarity with the campus organization Concerned Student 1950 to combat racial tensions on campus, which ultimately led to the university's system president's resignation .

Watch the documentary, which premiered on The Undefeated on Tuesday, above.

Lee was in Columbia, Missouri, in March to watch the student-made documentary "Concerned Student 1950" -- which followed student activists at Mizzou -- at the True/False Film Festival. During his trip, the director interviewed and filmed students as they led a protest aimed at the continued racial tensions on campus.

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