Ava DuVernay’s Peabody-winning Array is celebrating the five-year anniversary of its Law Enforcement Accountability Project ...

Jane Fonda, Nancy Pelosi and Ava DuVernay bestowed the honors at the event, which raised $3.1 million for the museum.

Nancy Pelosi was a surprise guest at the MOCA gala, in support of honoree Frank Gehry; Noah Davis exhibit opens at Hammer; ...

DuVernay is the first director, writer and producer to earn the honor, which recognizes "lifetime contributions embodying American ideas and ideals" ...

Danielle A. Scruggs didn't expect that Ava DuVernay's debut film I Will Follow would change her life. But seeing a movie ...

‘That’s not going to work.’ But we did it anyway.” Ava DuVernay is smiling, but there’s a steeliness to her words. The director, writer and producer is no stranger to carving her own pat ...

He's more than a genius ... Frank Gehry is a magician,' said Pelosi at the event, which also celebrated artist Theaster Gates ...

Ava DuVernay helmed an epic film on social hierarchies that spans centuries and continents to show how the killing of Trayvon Martin, Indian castes and the Holocaust are all connected. By Rebecca ...

Someone’s at the top; someone’s at the bottom.” But how to make it into a film? Ava DuVernay (Maya Iman) The determination of DuVernay would move an army, and it turned out that she and ...

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

Even though they have similar last names, Duvernay isn't connected to Oscar-nominated director Ava DuVernay, 52. While Nicholas grew up in Long Island, Ava was born and raised in Southern ...