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Director Ava DuVernay On Hollywood Diversity
Ava DuVernay on Hollywood diversity and the need for heroes that ‘reflect more than one kind of person’
Entertainment Weekly – May 7, 2015
By Nina Terreo
With Selma, director Ava DuVernay tackled the story of Martin Luther King and the fight for voting rights amid the rampant racial injustice of the ‘60s. But many of the issues that acted as a catalyst for the civil-rights movement—including racist attitudes and injustice—remain in existance today, as evidenced by recent police actions in Ferguson, Mo., Baltimore, and North Charleston, S.C., and the outrage that followed. Read more here.