Public Enemy has finally selected a date for its return to the hip-hop nation that it helped to build.

The group's first album in three years, titled "Resurrection," is set for an April 28 release on Def Jam Records. As we first reported last December (see "Public Enemy Back in Studio"), the album features all the members of the original PE line-up (including the production team known as the Bomb Squad), and will serve as the soundtrack to the upcoming Spike Lee film "He Got Game" which stars Denzel Washington and Milla Jovovich.

The Spike Lee/PE connection goes back to the opening of the 1989 Lee film "Do The Right Thing" in which the group's "Fight The Power" blared like a siren while a still-unknown Rosie Perez danced wildly behind the opening credits.

Lee was hoping to capture the same energy this time around for "He Got Game," which opens on May 1.

"The partnership of Chuck D and the group for the 'Do The Right Thing' project made a significant impact within not only music, but cinema as well," Lee said in a written statement trumpeting the upcoming release.

"For 'He Got Game,' I needed a group that could focus in on and capture the vibrance, the highs and the lows, the positives and negatives of the world of sports and high finance."

The soundtrack is the first of a number of new PE projects on the way this year. As we reported last month (see "Chuck D Downplays Producing As PE Readies Three Albums"), the group is also readying a retrospective titled "Bring The Noise 2000" as well as another studio album, titled "There's A Poison Going On," that should arrive in the Fall.