🎬 The Director’s Shelf — Ava DuVernay:

🎬 The Director’s Shelf — Entry No. 1Ava DuVernay:

The Architect of Emotional JusticeI couldn’t help but wonder… can a lens feel like a liberation?

If Ava DuVernay’s career were a bookshelf, it would be lined in velvet and lit like a prayer. Her films don’t just show us Black life—they bless it. Each project is a love letter to nuance, from the winding ache of Selma to the cultural crown that is When They See Us.

Ava directs like a woman who knows stories can be shelter.

Or justice. Or both.

On my shelf, she’s the candlelit corner. The spine I return to when I need to remember that grace can be radical, and that sometimes the revolution wears eyeliner.