Ava DuVernay Talks About Her Own “Traumatizing” Experiences With Police Aggression

Ava Duvernay has signed on to make a new series about sportsman and activist Colin Kaepernick’s early years.The longtime friends will collaborate on the six-part Colin in Black & White, which will focus on Kaepernick’s teenage years and early sports success in California before he spearheaded a social and civil rights movement by taking a knee during the U.S.

Colin Kaepernick and Ava DuVernay have teamed up for a Netflix series exploring the former NFL star’s teenage years.

Netflix is teaming up with Emmy Award-winning director Ava DuVernay to bring former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s adolescent life to the television screen.

George Floyd's death, Tiffany Haddish has become a prominent figure in the Black Lives Matter movement, often using comedy to make suggestions about how the country can better fulfill its promise of equality and freedom for all.On Friday, June 19, amid nationwide celebrations of Juneteenth, which commemorates the end of slavery in the United States, the "Girls Trip" star addressed a crowd outside the Laugh Factory in Los Angeles during the comedy club's Juneteenth forum.In a clip from her

Jada Pinkett Smith hosted an emotional episode of on Friday, discussing racism in America with her daughter, Willow, her mother, Adrienne Banfield-Norris, as well as activists Dr. Angela Davis and Tamika Mallory.The 48-year-old actress started off the episode by noting the significance of Juneteenth on Friday, which marks the true ending of slavery in the United States.

open letter spearheaded by the Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest LGBTQ rights organizations, they demand long-term, structural changes to policing, including the divestment of police resources and reinvestment of funds in communities.It comes in the wake of nationwide protests over police brutality and systemic racism against Black Americans, sparked by the death of George Floyd, who was killed last month after a white Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck for almost nine

Hasan Minhaj is right in the middle of the culture war.

Ava DuVernay has thrown her support behind a new campaign to rename a famous bridge featured in her 2014 movie Selma after civil rights activist and politician John Lewis. The U.S.

Ava DuVernay talks to Ellen DeGeneres about George Floyd, police brutality, and more on Monday’s “Ellen” show.

Most people spend their birthday receiving gifts — but Angelina Jolie celebrated hers by giving. 

In wake of the Black Lives Matter protests sparked by the death of George Floyd last month, Canadian-American rock veteran Neil Young is calling for “new laws,” “new rules for policing” and an overall “real change” to help put a stop to racism.

Hugh Jackman is catching backlash after a tweet labeling a photo of a police officer hugging a protester as “solidarity.” On Wednesday, the actor shared a photo that appears to show a police officer at a protest hugging a crying black protester. As people across the United States continue to protest in support of police reform after the death of George Floyd, the “X-Men” star’s followers were quick to deride the post as propaganda in favor of the cops.

Shortly after the video was released of George Floyd being killed by a police officer and protests began to rise up around the US, Spike Lee released a short clip editing together the videos of Floyd and Eric Garner being killed alongside a similar scene in the director’s own “Do The Right Thing,” asking the question, “When will history stop repeating itself?” In a new interview with the Los Angeles Times, Lee talked about the connection between his 1989 acclaimed film and the recent racist

The actress has always been very vocal when it comes to racism and discrimination! That being said, amid the current protests sparked by the horrible killing of George Floyd, a video from 2012 in which Meghan was sharing her personal experience with racism has resurfaced! At the time, the Duchess of Sussex appeared on USA Network’s Characters Unite: ‘I Won’t Stand For’’ campaign. As part of it, Meghan got candid about her own experience with inequality and racism in the past.