Award-winning director Ava DuVernay's new film
Origin explores a new way to consider the historical subjugation of Black people in America: As the adverse result of a caste
system.The film is inspired by Isabel Wilkerson's book
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. In the movie, Wilkerson embarks on a journey to learn about caste - traveling to Germany and India to get to the root of the Black experience in America. DuVernay also directed
13th,
When They See Us, and
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