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Trauma is inescapable in the first trailer for Origin, Ava DuVernay’s forthcoming film chronicling Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson as she sits in generation-spanning grief to write ...

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Based on Isabel Wilkerson's book Caste, DuVernay's film draws a line between India's caste system, the hierarchies of Nazi Germany and the... With 'Origin,' Ava DuVernay illuminates America's racial ...

Caste, by Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson lingers, forcing a reckoning with the structures we live inside and the benefits we rarely question.

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Watching Origin, the mind-stirring new film from writer-director Ava DuVernay, I found myself leaning forward, the way you do when a friend you haven’t seen in a long time relates an intensely ...

Ava DuVernay describes her new movie "Origin," which is based on Isabel Wilkerson's book "Caste," as "a film about a woman in pursuit of an idea." "It took me a really long time to wrap my mind around ...

When filmmaker Ava DuVernay first read Isabel Wilkerson's 2020 book, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, she was so stunned, she reread it twice. The bestselling book draws a line between India's ...