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The film industry’s systemic struggles with hiring non-white actors have been well documented, but director Ava DuVernay knows that what’s in front of the camera is only half the battle. It’s important that attention be paid to diversity efforts on film crews, as well. Through her nonprofit company Array Alliance, DuVernay has created a diversity database that studios like Warner Bros., Disney, Netflix, and Sony have invested in. The aim is to widen the insular circles that form in the production world and letting more women and people of color onto the playing field. The Los Angeles T...

To hear Peter Roth tell it, friends, including J.J. Abrams, had been insisting he needed to know Ava DuVernay long before their first meeting. So when the longtime Warner Bros. TV executive found himself across from the filmmaker at the Los Angeles offices of Oprah Winfrey’s cable network, OWN, to discuss collaborating on DuVernay’s Louisiana-set television drama “Queen Sugar,” the creative connection, as they say, was instant. “I’ve never had the experience of being so closely connected with someone who’s probably, just on paper, the polar opposite of me — not a woman, not B...

>> i didn't say race didn't play a role. i said to someone who wants introduce blame to all cops, i just introduced you to a black cop. i watched netflix with great interest. that series left me wanting to know more. and so in my quest for information, i've watched those videotaped confessions. i also -- you should do this, google something called the armstrong report. google something called the galligan opinion and reach as much as can you. don't draw conclusions based on a television version in four parts of what ava said occurred in that very complicated case. i don't have it figured out b...