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

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

It goes without saying that any biopic of Martin Luther King, Jr. (David Oyelowo) would want to re-enact the legendary ...

Last week, the Smithsonian National Museum of American History recognized the filmmaker Ava DuVernay with a lifetime achievement award. That's where she gave a short speech. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED ...

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Natalia Bryant gives dad Kobe Bryant a nod with a message on her USC graduation stole. After Jeanie Buss delivers her diploma ...

Lena Waithe will receive Humanitas' 'Voice for Change Award' at the 2025 Humanitas Prizes Award Show & Toast on Sept. 7.

An African drum procession. Fraternity members barking in celebration. Black kings adjusting each other’s proverbial crowns.

Bob Steneck, who spent four decades at the University of Maine conducting research to better understand and bolster Maine's ...

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