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Director Ava DuVernay calls on artists and historians to resist ‘criminal’ Trump
Oscar nominee warns ‘truth itself is under revision’ while receiving award at Smithsonian American history museum
DuVernay, whose films include Selma, which chronicles Martin Luther King’s campaign for voting rights, issued the rallying cry while receiving an award at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in Washington. Previous honourees include the secretary of state Madeleine Albright, general Colin Powell, musician Paul Simon, doctor Anthony Fauci and supreme court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (posthumously). But Trump’s executive order, issued in March, argues that the institution has recently “come under the influence of a divisive, race-centered ideology” and calls on Vice-President JD Vance, a member of the Smithsonian’s board of regents, to lead a counteroffensive.
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