coming up, we speak with award-winning filmmaker ava duvernay.stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: from "origin." this is democracy now! i'm amy goodman. we spend the rest of the hour with award-winning filmmaker ava duvernay. she has explored black history in many of the movies she's directed, from "selma" to the documentary "13th" that explores race and the prison industrial complex to the miniseries "when they see us" about the central park five, now known as the exonerated five. she also directed disney's "a wrinkle in time." ava duvernay's new feature film is called "origin," and it takes viewers on a journey that explores racism from the united states and the killing of trayvon martin to dalits in india to nazi book burnings in germany and the killing of jews in the lead up to world war ii. it does so by dramatizing the book "caste: the origins of our discontents" by pulitzer prize-winning journalist isabel wilkerson, as well as the process of writing the book. this is the trailer for "origin." >> will find something tragic that is happening.

we turn to someone responsible for selma, wrinkle in time ava duvernay.t stories. and there's different ways to reach people. you took something very serious and real, nonfiction, but approached it this way. why? >> well, i wanted to engender empathy and people to get inside of the story. i read the book and was activated by the information in it. lot of facts, figures, dense material, things we should know, history. but we want to bring an intimacy and emotion to that so people start to ingest it from a place it's humanizing, feels person. i think that's the only way we change things is if we feel connected to what happened. >> totally. the underlying look uses a wider lens from what we look at inside one country's experience. that's striking because as you know many people in the world don't get to leave their home country. they don't necessarily have the means and the experience or the legal status to go to 10 or 20 different places. so you're sort of doing that. i want to play another excerpt from the film with that in mind as you look at the sweep of

. >>> and writer, producer, director ava duvernay is here to discuss her new movie, origin, which examines racism and social inequality in a unique way and it's getting rave reviews. >>> and we begin tonight with the undeniable reality that the modern day republican party, to paraphrase pree trump era conyea, dut nas care about the american people. that's not meant as an ad hominem. but the unfortunate truth is why there are individual republicans here and there, the michael steeles that care, the party writ large keeps telling us every day that they as a party don't care. just yesterday, we got yet another example of just how little respect this party has for the people they supposedly represent and for every american. when iowa senator chuck grassley who was first elected to the united states senate in 1980, and who is the senate's most senior member, glibly told reporters that he doesn't want to pass a bill extending the federal child tax credit which would pull millions of american children out of poverty, because it would make biden look good. just listen to him. >> passing a tax bill

cerf, filmmaker ava duvernay, a civil rights leader. thelton henderson, and renowned choreographer brenda way, female firefighters in los angeles are speaking up, saying they've been stuck in ill fitting gear their entire careers. >> the county fire department employs 82 women, but their uniforms are only made for men. firefighters took up their problem with the l.a. county board of supervisors today demonstrating their daily challenges. >> i don't want someone to have to wait an extra second while i hike my pants up so that i have more mobility, so i can climb in that window and go get them. i want them to wait the exact same number of seconds that they would wait. if there was a male firefighter on the outside, and chief rathburn says female firefighters have a higher injury rate, and that the gaps in their protective gear could let in carcinogens. >> the all women board, all women board approved the motion to help out these firefighters. they are sending a letter to manufacturers asking for uniforms designed for women in computer sci

ava duvernay, civil rights leader.helton henderson, basketball star cheryl miller, and two legendary music groups, the go-go's and los lobos. >> very nice. yes. all right. sal's got the beat of the traffic. >> oh, we've got the beat. >> i remember that album cover. you do remember that? it's all of the. yes, kind of iconic there. yeah. the go-go's. all right. good morning, everyone. you know what we do have the commute looking pretty good. i'm looking at the bay bridge and it is backed up and yeah, a pretty good by pretty good, i mean pretty good for this time. nothing unexpected on the span. there is the expected 15 minute delay before you make it onto the bridge, but it's dry and that really does help us out. you get more normal looking commutes. san mateo bridge dumbarton bridge look good. really nothing on the peninsula or in the south bay right now. we had some earlier issues that are cleared up. so now without further ado, you know when it rains things change. let's talk to the man who knows. here's mister steve.

cerf, filmmaker ava duvernay, civil rights leader thelton henderson, and renowned choreographer brendaerybody. we're taking a look at the vegas forecast. super bowl sunday. couldn't find better weather. we'll see. sunshine, temperatures in the mid 50s, but it does get chilly as the game wraps up. you'll be in the upper 40s if you are going to vegas on sunday. back here at home, it's all about rain. returning to the forecast today, those showers back after 8 a.m. it is a level one today. gusty winds at times too. even a dusting of snow on our highest peaks. daytime highs. it is chilly. bundle up only the low and mid 50s. amanda >> thank you so much drew and new at six. the end of the landlord in the major phone company that wants to end service for much of the bay area, then san francisco based docusign announces a third round of layoffs. >> since 2022. why the ceo says he had no other choice and the push from a bay area lawmaker to require computer science for a a victory that is there for the taking. grab it. now that was a great halftime speech. let's go win. [jim valvano] don't give