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

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

“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 ...

"I do not believe that my life is unworthy because I don't have children. I do not believe that my life is unworthy because I ...

Playwright and attorney Mary Kathryn Nagle and multidisciplinary visual artist Anita Fields are among the 250 new members of ...

Read Ava DuVernay’s full Smithsonian speech here: Thank you to the National Museum of American History, Dr. Hartig and the remarkable leadership of the Smithsonian for bestowing upon me this ...

As President Donald Trump prepares Americans for economic hardship amid a looming trade war, Last Week Tonight‘s John Oliver ...