Category: DuVernay, Ava
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Reel 2: Malcolm X, Selma
In today’s episode, Sean and Claude take a look at two films about civil rights leaders of the 1960s: Malcolm X (1992), directed by Spike Lee, and Selma (2014), directed by Ava DuVernay. In general, people have very different images of these two icons in their heads: Martin Luther King as the nonviolent, peaceful “passive…