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

Actress Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor shares her profound connection to D. Danyelle Thomas’ book “The Day God Saw Me as Black.” ...

“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 ...

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

A Texas Representative has introduced a new bill proposing that "Texas is the new Hollywood" ahead of the state's film incentive boom.

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

Read Ava DuVernay’s full Smithsonian speech here: Thank you to the National Museum of American History, Dr. Hartig and the remarkable leadership of the Smithsonian for bestowing upon me this ...

"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 ...