The Director's Cut Oral History Project is a series of six video oral history interviews recorded in 2025 with current and former living directors of the Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture. The project was undertaken as a part of the celebrations for the160th anniversary of the Avery Normal Institute and the 40th anniversary of the Avery Research Center. Participants discuss a wide variety of topics including their professional lives, what brought them to the Avery Research Center, accomplishments and challenges from their tenure as director, the role that the Avery Institute of Afro-American History and Culture and Averyites from the Avery Normal Institute played in their work, and their thoughts on the impact and liberatory legacy of the Avery Research Center.