Full Coverage: Spotlighting ‘Selma’

Vera Booker recalls Bloody Sunday like it happened this week.

It’s rare for an actor to portray the same historic character in more than one project, but Carmen Ejogo has taken a second shot at getting into the skin of Coretta Scott King.

Jawana Jackson scrunched her eyebrows, momentarily puzzled as she stared at a bedroom bureau.

Though “Selma” was widely perceived as being snubbed during awards season, the Paramount Pictures film has marched onward and upward at the box office.

One of the most discussed musical performances during Sunday’s Academy Awards broadcast was for the Oscar-winning song “Glory.”

Shortly before the actor David Oyelowo began shooting the part of Martin Luther King Jr. in the new historical drama “Selma,” he set out on a video-hunting mission.

Director Ava DuVernay is finalizing the sound mix on the last few minutes of “Selma” on the Saturday night before Thanksgiving, roughly a month before the movie’s Christmas Day opening.

There’s a short scene in the upcoming film “Selma” about the events leading up to, and surrounding, the Selma to Montgomery civil rights marches of 1965 in which Coretta Scott King confronts her husband, Martin, about his suspected infidelities.

Setting aside the perceived snub of “Selma” in the Oscars nominations last week, director Ava DuVernay and producer Oprah Winfrey joined their cast and crew to march alongside local residents of Selma, Ala., on Sunday in celebration of Martin Luther King Jr.

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Ava DuVernay may be the most talked about woman in Hollywood right now, but though many want to know the “Selma” filmmaker’s thoughts on being snubbed in the Oscar nominations for directing, others in a packed Landmark Theatre in Los Angeles on Tuesday night came to hear about her quick ascent in the world of independent movies.

Long before the Oscar-nominated “Selma” was championed as the first major motion picture about the Rev.