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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ava DuVernay doesn’t want to talk about Donald Trump’s election. Her feelings are still too raw. But because Oprah Winfrey asked about it, the filmmaker opened up: Trump “represents violence,” DuVernay said, and she doesn’t have much empathy for those who supported him. She made the remarks Sunday during a discussion […]

The United States prison system has become a part of life for many people of color, considering that the nation has just five percent of the world’s population but over 25 percent of the world’s prisoners. Selma Director Ava DuVernay examines the prison-industrial complex in her Netflix documentary, The 13th, which takes a serious look […]

It doesn’t get much busier than Ava DuVernay these days. From tackling TV with the critically-acclaimed Queen Sugar on OWN, to directing A Wrinkle in Time for Disney and now debuting a documentary on Netflix, she is without a doubt one of the most in-demand women in Hollywood. Perhaps the best thing about her ridiculously […]