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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

“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 ...