Ava Duvernay describes dad's 'traumatizing' encounter with police

Joe Otterson TV ReporterAva DuVernay, Sarah Bremner, and Paul Garnes of ARRAY Filmworks joined the Variety Virtual TV Fest on Wednesday, detailing how they have used ARRAY as a means to develop and nurture new talent.“‘Queen sugar’ is a very special show to us because it was kind of the TV moment that launched this conversation on, ‘Hey, we need to build a longterm crew to tell a story about a family in Southern Louisiana,'” Garnes told Variety business editor Cynthia Littleton.

killing of George Floyd, and are available to stream for free online, while, which the director says “serves [as] a snapshot of the destruction that these systems actually have on real people,” is available on Netflix — and is part of the platform’s curated collection of content in support of Black Lives Matter.

Filmmaker Ava Duvernay grew up wary and fearful of police officers, because no one in her community thought they made bad things better.

Despite the protests and the killing of George Floyd being the latest news to come up in regards to the Black Lives Matter movement and the systemic racism that plagues the US, the stories of Black people being targeted by police is nothing new.

LOS ANGELES -- Filmmaker Ava DuVernay has been elected to the film academy’s Board of Governors for the first time. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced its new members Wednesday, which include the “Selma” filmmaker, “A Star is Born” producer Lynette Howell Taylor and casting director Debra Zane.

In the wake of George Floyd’s death and the subsequent protests all over the world, Mrs. America star Niecy Nash says she is “a f***ing wreck” after her son had a scary encounter with the Los Angeles police last weekend.

Keke Palmer is continuing to speak out one week after a video of her at a Los Angeles protest went viral. The 26-year-old actress was protesting police brutality and racial injustice when she was filmed speaking with a member of the National Guard, asking him to march with the protesters in a show of solidarity. In a new guest column for, Palmer opens up her interaction with the guard, and why the Black Lives Matter movement is so important to her.

revealed that Oscar voters were angered by the cast wearing T-shirts that said “I Can’t Breathe” to the film’s Los Angeles premiere in protest of the murder of Eric Garner.

J. Kim Murphy editorProtesters gathered on Friday at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to support the Black Lives Matter movement.The protest comes one day after David Oyelowo, who starred in the 2014 best picture nominee “Selma” as Dr.

Kendall Jenner has been mocked by Black Lives Matter protesters in the wake of George Floyd’s tragic death. The model starred in an infamous 2017 Super Bowl Pepsi commercial — which was later revoked — in which she leaves a photoshoot to take part in a protest, ultimately offering a police officer a Pepsi as a peace offering. The ad was widely criticized for its tone-deaf message and gross oversimplification of activism.

Cynthia Bailey, her fiancé, Mike Hill, their daughters, Ashleé Hill, Kayla Hill, Noelle Robinson, and Noelle’s girlfriend, Alexis, joined the thousands of people across the world who are protesting police brutality and injustice in the wake of the deaths of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and more. The Real Housewives of Atlanta family peacefully protested together in Los Angeles on June 3, and detailed their experience later on Instagram. 

Actor Evan Peters was criticized on social media for sharing a tweet that referred to "piece of s--- looters" who were being chased by police. A Twitter user shared a video on Monday of helicopter coverage of the George Floyd protests out of Los Angeles showing the police pursuing a looter on foot. The user injected their own commentary, calling the looter a "son of a b----." "I can watch these piece of s--- looters get tackled all day!!" the person tweeted.

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Halsey has been in the middle of the protests in Los Angeles over the past few days, and the singer shared photos and videos on Instagram to let her fans know what she has witnessed. The You Should Be Sad singer has provided first aid to those who have been injured while protesting George Floyd’s death, and she told people who are sitting in “the comfort” of their own home to open their eyes.