Oprah Winfrey, Ava DuVernay, Stacey Abrams Call for Systemic Change Amid Events "That Demand Action"

coronavirus outbreak led to shutdown and quarantines back in March, Oprah Winfrey and Gayle King got a chance to see one another in person!King, who has been self-isolating in New York City, flew out to California to reconnect with her best friend.

Best friends Oprah Winfrey and Gayle King are not letting coronavirus pandemic keep them apart–although still from a safe distance.

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

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

killing of George Floyd, and are available to stream for free online, while, which the director says “serves [as] a snapshot of the destruction that these systems actually have on real people,” is available on Netflix — and is part of the platform’s curated collection of content in support of Black Lives Matter.

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.

Ava DuVernay has shared memories of her childhood interactions with the police, including one traumatising incident in which she saw her father tackled to the ground.“Police came into our backyard… and I remember coming out of the house and seeing my father – my proud, beautiful father – on the ground in our own backyard, wrestled to the ground by police,” DuVernay told Oprah Winfrey during the first of two OWN Spotlight: Where Do We Go From Here? TV specials.

Filmmaker Ava Duvernay grew up wary and fearful of police officers, because no one in her community thought they made bad things better.The Selma director has been a loud voice amid the Black Lives Matter protests following the death of George Floyd at the hands of cops in Minnesota, and now she’s opening up about one scary encounter with police officials when she was a kid, growing up in Los Angeles’ southern cities.“Police came into our backyard… and I remember coming out of the house and

Filmmaker Ava Duvernay grew up wary and fearful of police officers, because no one in her community thought they made bad things better.

Despite the protests and the killing of George Floyd being the latest news to come up in regards to the Black Lives Matter movement and the systemic racism that plagues the US, the stories of Black people being targeted by police is nothing new.

Oprah Winfreyis bringing stars, activists and other public figures together to discuss the future of the U.S. following weeks of civil unrest. In part one of the two-night special OWN Spotlight: Where Do We Go From Here, the former talk show host was joined by Selma star David Oyelowo, who opened up about the "mistake" he believes he made in talking to his son about racism and police brutality, which he touched on in a video previously shared to Instagram.

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

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV Critic“No one’s talking about the economic inequalities that may lead people to want to go through a glass door to get a pair of shoes,” said Ava DuVernay tonight on the Oprah Winfrey hosted special OWN Spotlight: Where Do We Go From Here?“No one’s talking about the systems that encompass all of the actions that we’re seeing,” the When They See Us filmmaker added of the reactions to the May 25 killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police and the large

Ava DuVernay has backed claims by actor David Oyelowo that Academy members said they would not vote for their civil rights film Selma after the cast showed support for a black man who died in police custody.

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