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Ava DuVernay's acumen is undeniable, her stamina indomitable.  DuVernay will repor

It was only five years ago when I stood next to Ava DuVernay prior to a screening and reception for her BET documentary "My Mic Sounds Nice" at Paramount in New York City. She was excited and nervous to see what the invited guests would say about h

When it was first announced that director Ava DuVernay and writer Spencer Averick would be crafting a documentary on the pseudo-ambiguous nature of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America, I already knew it would be a

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is as quintessentially American a story as any in the history of the United States, but many attempts at immortalizing his life and times have come up short. At the recent Urbanworld Film Festival, director Ava Duvernay

Award-winning film Middle of Nowhere tells the story of Ruby, a medical student in Los Angeles. Her husband has been jailed on a multi-year bid, giving Ruby the absurd task of figuring out what their young marriage now me

In Echo Park, directed by Amanda Marsalis and starring Anthony Okungbowa and Mamie Gummer, and released by Ava Duvernay's Array film distribution company, two normal Los Angelenos unencumbered by stereotypes a

This month, Ava Duvernay’s African American Film Festival Releasing Movement (AAFRM) and ImageNation Rawspace premiered the documentary Vanishing Pearls in New York. AAFRM’s first documentary,