Following the news that “Selma” — the historical drama charting Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s protest marches in 1965 Alabama — was snubbed for a number of Oscar nominations, many critics blamed a lack of diversity within the Academy as the root of the problem.
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“Bottom line is folks should interrogate history,” DuVernay wrote on Twitter at the time. “Don’t take my word for it or LBJ rep’s word for it. Let it come alive for yourself.”
