Oprah Winfrey Hosts Two-Night OWN Special About Racism In America Simulcast On All Discovery Networks

"You know, we can all feel that our country, the United States, is in a moment of reckoning right now.

Oprah Winfrey is one of the most successful chat show hosts in the US, and has interviewed everyone from Barack Obama to Barbra Streisand. The TV personality has been in the public eye for many years, but long before her life in the spotlight, she was a pupil at East Nashville High School.

Oprah Winfrey continued to have an open conversation with black artists and activists on Wednesday aimed at determining how America can help eradicate systemic inequality and racism. Winfrey's two-night conversation, called "Where Do We Go From Here?", featuring director Ava DuVernay, former U.S.

Will Thorne Staff WriterAva DuVernay has called out the mainstream media for “conflating” protestors and looters in covering the mass protests in response to the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minnesota police.Speaking during the first part of Oprah Winfrey’s two-night town hall titled “Where Do We Go From Here?” on racism in America, DuVernay said that she has witnessed people’s “concern with the murder of Black people by police” being “deterred because someone is taking a pair of jeans

Oprah Winfrey is tackling America’s race issues with a two-night TV special.As activists continue to take to the streets to protest the death of George Floyd, Oprah will front OWN Spotlight: Where Do We Go From Here? on her cable network next week (09-10Jun20).The special, which will also air across Discovery’s 18 other U.S.

Oprah Winfrey will lead a conversation with black thought leaders, activists and artists next week called OWN Spotlight: Where Do We Go From Here?, Variety reports.

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) – Oprah Winfrey is set to host a two-night town hall to discuss systemic racism in America and the current state of a country which has seen mass protests since the death of George Floyd at the hands of police officers in Minnesota. Titled “OWN Spotlight: Where Do We Go From Here?,” the town hall will be simulcast on OWN and all of its parent company Discovery’s 18 other networks.

As protests continue throughout the world in response to the tragic death of George Floyd, Oprah Winfrey wants to promote a conversation about racism in America.

By Will Thorne

Oprah Winfrey on Friday broke her silence about the killing ofGeorge Floyd, assuring his death would not be in vain. In a statement posted to social media, which included an illustration ofFloyd,Winfrey said she has not said anything until this moment about the events that transpired Monday inMinnesota because she was having a hard time processing what she saw: a black man, held down by police officers as one white officer knelt on his neck.Floyd would die from his injuries.

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