Ava DuVernay, David Oyelowo & Oprah Talk the Brilliance of ‘SELMA’

DuVernay: What was important to me was that everyone be real…I was interested in the people who were there, being bludgeoned and humiliated: the real Amelia Boynton, the real Diane Nash, the real John Lewis, the real C.T. Vivian, the real Andrew Young.

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What’s to Come?

DuVernay: You had a media-capture of racism and the strangulation of this brother, and nothing happened. We’re trying to figure out how this all works together at this point. But there’s something brewing, this collaborative energy for change… I’m not sure what the answer is, but it feels like the time is now.

Click here to read the full interview. – @divinelyinventive

Authored by: tjbwriteratlanta

There are 5 comments for this article
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  4. Tiffani at 10:24 pm

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  5. Brittney at 8:31 pm

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