NPR's Juana Summers talks with filmmaker Ava DuVernay about her lifetime achievement award speech at the Smithsonian American History Museum.

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History (NMAH) presented trailblazing director, writer and producer Ava ...

Acclaimed director Ava DuVernay reflected on what the Smithsonian museums mean to Americans as she received a lifetime ...

Ava DuVernay accepted the Smithsonian’s Great Americans Medal while voicing support for the African American museum.

When Ava DuVernay, the award-winning director of Selma and A Wrinkle in Time, first heard about this year's Met Gala theme, ...

“Let us remind those who try to ‘restore’ a narrow, divisive past, that the future belongs to the whole of us,” said Great Americans Medal recipient Ava DuVernay to a Washington DC crowd this week ...

Acclaimed director Ava DuVernay reflected on what the Smithsonian museums mean to Americans as she received a lifetime achievement award on Thursday at the National Museum of American History.

"I do not believe that my life is unworthy because I don't have children. I do not believe that my life is unworthy because I ...

Playwright and attorney Mary Kathryn Nagle and multidisciplinary visual artist Anita Fields are among the 250 new members of ...