Ava DuVernay is one of the most fascinating and trailblazing filmmakers in the business. She’s an Emmy and BAFTA award winner and an Oscar and Golden Globe nominee, whose middle name should be “First.” For 2012’s Middle of Nowhere, she became the first Black woman to win Sundance Film Festival’s …
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SELMA, Ala. – As Pearlie Miller stood in front of her home in Selma, Alabama, on Friday morning, she wasn’t assessing the damage done by the destructive tornado that tore through the city the day prior. An insurance adjuster had already done that for her — noting the entire left side of …
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SELMA, Ala. (AP) — A giant, swirling storm system billowing across the South killed at least six people Thursday in central Alabama, authorities said, and spawned a tornado that shredded the walls of homes, toppled roofs and uprooted trees in Selma. Ernie Baggett, the emergency management director in Autauga County, …
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