Oscar nominee warns \u2018truth itself is under revision\u2019 while receiving award at Smithsonian American history museum<\/p>\n
Ava DuVernay<\/a>, an Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning director, has urged artists and historians to hold the line against a \u201ccriminal\u201d US president at a time when \u201ctruth itself is under revision\u201d.<\/p>\n DuVernay, whose films include Selma, which chronicles Martin Luther King\u2019s campaign for voting rights, issued the rallying cry while receiving an award<\/a> at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in Washington.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Oscar nominee warns \u2018truth itself is under revision\u2019 while receiving award at Smithsonian American history museum Ava DuVernay, an Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning director, has urged artists and historians to hold the line against a \u201ccriminal\u201d US president at a time when \u201ctruth itself is under revision\u201d. DuVernay, whose films include Selma, which chronicles Martin Luther … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}