Oprah Winfrey Discusses Systemic Racism In New Apple TV Series

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Oprah Winfrey Discusses Systemic Racism In New Apple TV Series

Oprah Winfrey discussed the legacy of systemic racism on her new Apple TV+ show, "The Oprah Conversation," with ex-NFLer and YouTube star Emmanuel Acho.

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? The Dred Scott Decision handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court on March 6, 1857 was supposed to end the decades-long debate about slavery in the United States. It did just the opposite, inflaming passions particularly in the North. In the follow speech, Abraham Lincoln, then a private citizen, p

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