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“There Is No Future In Forgetting”: Watch Great Americans Medal Recipient Ava DuVernay’s Smithsonian Speech
VIDEO: 'Selma' & 'Origin' Director Ava DuVenay In Her Great Americans Medal Speech At Smithsonian
While never directly mentioning Donald Trump by name in her May 8 remarks, DuVernay characteristically made her point extremely clear to anyone picking up what she was putting down about his ongoing MAGA attacks on democracy, diversity and the Smithsonian itself. Stating that “now at a time when truth itself is under revision,” the filmmaker and activist starkly added: “We know that what is sometimes labeled improper ideology is in fact connective, that what some call distorted is simply a new perspective, long buried, now revealed.” Joining past Great Americans Award recipients Gen. Colin Powell, Thomas J. Brokaw, Ex-Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright, Cal Ripken Jr., Billie Jean King, Paul Simon, Anthony Fauci, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (posthumously) and YoYo Ma, DuVernay is the 10 th person to be given the honor.
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