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.

Acclaimed director Ava DuVernay reflected on what the Smithsonian museums mean to Americans as she received a lifetime ...

By Graham Bowley The director Ava DuVernay on Thursday added her voice to those defending the Smithsonian Institution following President Trump’s efforts to try to reshape its depiction of ...

When Ava DuVernay, the award-winning director of Selma and A Wrinkle in Time, first heard about this year's Met Gala theme, she was at a Miu Miu’s Women’s Tales event in Paris with the Prada team. “I ...

Ava DuVernay delivers her acceptance speech for the National Museum of American History’s Great Americans Medal. Ronald Flores / National Museum of American History The Smithsonian’s National ...

Ava DuVernay accepted the Smithsonian’s Great Americans Medal while voicing support for the African American museum.

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 ...

“Let us remind those who try to ‘restore’ a narrow, divisive past, that the future belongs to the whole of us,” said Great Americans Medal recipient Ava DuVernay to a Washington DC crowd this week ...

Acclaimed director Ava DuVernay reflected on what the Smithsonian museums mean to Americans as she received a lifetime achievement award on Thursday at the National Museum of American History.