The filmmaker turned 51 on August 24, the same day I previewed the film with a small group of critics and journalists. She spent the better part of her 50th year working on “Origin” — shooting the ...
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Journalist and author Isabel Wilkerson reflects on this year's Juneteenth celebrations — and the push and pull of the Black experience in America. 'This is American history': 'Caste' author Isabel ...
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Isabel Wilkerson will speak in Burlington, Vermont as part of a Diversity Speaker Series. Wilkerson won a Pulitzer Prize in 1994 and is known for her books ...
(JTA) — Early in the new drama “Origin,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning Black author Isabel Wilkerson (played by Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor) calls her cousin from Berlin to share that, as part of her research ...
Actor Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor is front and center in Ava DuVernay’s “Origin,” a film interpretation of Pulitzer Prize winner Isabel Wilkerson’s 2020 nonfiction bestseller and Oprah's Book Club pick ...
“Origin” is inspired by Pulitzer Prize-winner Isabel Wilkerson’s 2020 nonfiction book about oppression, “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents.” Writer-director Ava Duvernay does not do a ...
On June 19, 1865, union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, to enforce the Emancipation Proclamation that had been issued some two and a half years earlier. More than 150 years later, President Joe ...