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Ava DuVernay’s Peabody-winning Array is celebrating the five-year anniversary of its Law Enforcement Accountability Project ...
Nancy Pelosi was a surprise guest at the MOCA gala, in support of honoree Frank Gehry; Noah Davis exhibit opens at Hammer; ...
Jane Fonda, Nancy Pelosi and Ava DuVernay bestowed the honors at the event, which raised $3.1 million for the museum.
DuVernay is the first director, writer and producer to earn the honor, which recognizes "lifetime contributions embodying American ideas and ideals" ...
Danielle A. Scruggs didn't expect that Ava DuVernay's debut film I Will Follow would change her life. But seeing a movie ...
Director Ava DuVernay reflected on what the Smithsonian museums mean to Americans as she received an award at the National ...
‘That’s not going to work.’ But we did it anyway.” Ava DuVernay is smiling, but there’s a steeliness to her words. The director, writer and producer is no stranger to carving her own pat ...
He's more than a genius ... Frank Gehry is a magician,' said Pelosi at the event, which also celebrated artist Theaster Gates ...
The doubts started as soon as director Ava DuVernay optioned the critically acclaimed 2020 nonfiction bestseller “Caste” for the big screen. Some said that Isabel Wilkerson’s revelatory ...
NPR's Juana Summers talks with filmmaker Ava DuVernay about her lifetime achievement award speech at the Smithsonian American History Museum. Last week, the Smithsonian National Museum of American ...
Even though they have similar last names, Duvernay isn't connected to Oscar-nominated director Ava DuVernay, 52. While Nicholas grew up in Long Island, Ava was born and raised in Southern ...
Ava DuVernay has slammed Donald Trump’s re-election as U.S. president, in spite of a criminal charges against him, saying that black people arrested on smaller crimes land years of jail time.