Ava DuVernay

FILM 

Black Oscar Snubs–The Egregious History

January 20, 2020 Kyra Jones 0 Comments #OscarsSoWhite, A Raisin In The Sun, Academy Awards, Angela Bassett, Ava DuVernay, Billy Dee Williams, David Oyelwo, Denzel Washington, Diana Ross, Hidden Figures, Janelle Monae, Lady Sings The Blues, Malcolm X, Octavia Spencer, Oprah Winfrey, Oscar, Richard Pryor, Ruby Dee, Ryan Coogler, Samuel L. Jackson, Selma, Sidney Poitier, Spike Lee, Taraji P. Henson, The Color Purple, Whoopi Goldberg, Will Smith

#OscarsSoWhite Through the Decades

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Netflix TELEVISION 

‘When They See Us’

June 20, 2019June 21, 2019 Erika Schickel 0 Comments Ava DuVernay, Donald Trump, Felicity Huffman, Jharrel Jerome, Oprah Winfrey, The Central Park Five, Vera Farmiga

I Once Played the Central Park Jogger, but Ava DuVernay’s Netflix Miniseries Tells the Real Story

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FICTION 

I Predict a Lit Riot

June 10, 2019June 10, 2019 Melissa Holbrook Pierson 0 Comments Ava DuVernay, Rachel Kushner, Riots I Have Known, Ryan Chapman, The Mars Room

Ryan Chapman’s ‘Riots I Have Known,’ a Prison Novel That’s Actually a Literary Satire

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History TELEVISION 

Who Writes Our History?

April 24, 2019April 30, 2019 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Ava DuVernay, Bert Williams, Cornel West, Henry Louis Gates Jr, Ida B. Wells, Jill LePore, PBS, Reconstruction, Stony The Road, Thaddeus Russell

Henry Louis Gates Jr.’s ‘Reconstruction,’ on PBS

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