Oprah Winfrey to Host ‘Where Do We Go From Here?’ Special With Black Thought Leaders

Oprah Winfrey plans to honour Black fathers with an upcoming special.

Oprah Winfrey is continuing to find ways to add her voice to the discussion surrounding Black Lives Matter. In a new special, OWN Spotlight: Oprah and 100 Black Fathers, Winfrey will speak to 100 Black fathers about how they're coping emotionally as parents and individuals during a time where people are fighting for racial justice to be seriously addressed, how they're speaking to their kids about the murders of Black people, and what they hope to see in the future.

"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.

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.

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.

Oprah Winfrey is hosting a discussion with Black thought leaders, artists and activists regarding the civil unrest across American in response to the murder of George Floyd next week as part of a two-night event that will be simulcast across 19 different Discovery-owned 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.

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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.

Oprah Winfrey is speaking out.