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Opinion: ‘Origin’ brilliantly exposes America’s caste system. Here’s how we tear it down
CNN via Yahoo News· 3 months agoThe film “Origin,” like the book “Caste” on which it was based, offers a powerful framing for...
Texas Judge Orders 12 Library Books Removed Over LGBTQ and Racial Content to Be Returned to Shelves
People via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe books, including Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson and Being Jazz: My...
Ava DuVernay on the Urgency and Artistry of Historical Drama Origin
Time via Yahoo News· 3 months agoIsabel Wilkerson (Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor) and her husband Brett Kelly Hamilton (Jon Bernthal) in...
Ava DuVernay Unpacks ‘Origin’: ‘You’ll Sit Through Three Hours’ of Oppenheimer’s Process. Will You...
Variety via Yahoo News· 8 months agoAfter directing “Origin” — the feature adaptation of Isabel Wilkerson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book...
Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor plays Isabel Wilkerson in ‘Origin.’ Why she’s ‘afraid’ of the author’s...
The Today Show via AOL· 3 months agoActor Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor is front and center in Ava DuVernay’s “Origin,” a film interpretation of...
“My Book Was Banned”: This Oprah’s Book Club Author Tells Us the Full Story
The Oprah Magazine via Yahoo News· 1 year agoRegarding book bans, Oprah's Book Club author of "Caste," Isabel Wilkerson, explains how it felt...
“A Story That Broke All of Our Hearts”: The Making of ‘Origin’
The Hollywood Reporter via Yahoo News· 4 months agoMany books have been called unfilmable, but in the case of Isabel Wilkerson’s 2020 best-seller...
Ava DuVernay on her ‘rebellious and radical’ new film ‘Origin’ and the ‘caste system of Hollywood’
CNN via Yahoo News· 3 months ago“We were told, ‘You probably shouldn’t do that.’ ‘That’s not going to work.’ But we did it anyway.”...
In 'Origin' movie, Mississippi-raised actor Aunjanue Ellis seeks the roots of racism
The Clarion Ledger via Yahoo News· 3 months agoNEW YORK — Ava DuVernay kept hearing she had to read “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents.” She...
With 'Origin,' Ava DuVernay tackles race issues through a new lens
LA Times via Yahoo News· 4 months agoAva DuVernay, right, mixes elements of the nonfiction book "Caste" with the story of its author,...