OPRAH WINFREY SHOW, THE: RACISM: WHAT WE'VE LEARNED ON 'OPRAH' (TV)
Summary
One in this talk show series hosted by Oprah Winfrey.
This episode presents a retrospective of episodes of “The Oprah Winfrey Show” revolving around topics of race in the United States. Clips of previous episodes include: a program where audience members were separated according to eye color as a means of demonstrating the debilitating effects of segregation; clips of interviews between Oprah and poet Maya Angelou, singer Natalie Cole, actress Halle Berry, rapper LL Cool J, newscaster Bryant Gumbel, actor Louis Gossett Jr., comedian Whoopi Goldberg, and director Spike Lee; excerpts from a program profiling a young white man who took medication in order to appear African-American as part of a social experiment inspired by the book “Black Like Me,” as well as several African-American individuals who underwent the same experiment in reverse; clips from episodes revolving around interracial couples and relationships; excerpts from other episodes on race featuring commentary from white audience members and guests about being perceived as racist; excerpts from episodes dealing with racially-based stereotypes and their proliferation; clips of moments of reconciliation and “hope” on the show; and excerpts of civil rights leaders appearing on the show.
Oprah then interviews Bernice King, youngest daughter of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. They discuss the extent of her father’s legacy and the expectations placed on her and her family after her father’s death. She feels that race relations have not yet progressed as much as she would have hoped. She recounts memories of being with her father and of attending his funeral, and of how she eventually came to understand his death and the circumstances around his assassination. King reads from “Testament of Hope,” a book compiling many of her father’s speeches, reciting an excerpt from his famous “Letter from a Birmingham Jail.” Commercials deleted.
Details
- NETWORK: Syndicated
- DATE: 4:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:44:19
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: 122064
- GENRE: Talk/Interviews
- SUBJECT HEADING: African-American Collection - News/Talk; TV - Talk/Interviews
- SERIES RUN: Syndicated - TV series, 1986-2011
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Dianne Atkinson Hudson … Executive Producer
- Alice McGee … Senior Producer
- Dana Newton … Senior Producer
- Ellen Rakieten … Senior Producer
- LeGrande Green … Senior Producer
- Oprah Winfrey … Supervising Producer
- David Boul … Producer
- Kandi Amelon … Producer
- Pauline Canny … Producer
- Katy Davis … Producer
- Mary Donahue … Producer
- Angie Kraus … Producer
- Jeanne Carow-Kurtzhaltzs … Associate Producer
- Elizabeth Coady … Associate Producer
- James Kelley … Associate Producer
- Jill Adams … Associate Producer
- Kandi Amelon … Associate Producer
- Judy Banks … Associate Producer
- Kevin Borenstein … Associate Producer
- Jim Brady … Associate Producer
- Dina Cholack … Associate Producer
- Amy Craig … Associate Producer
- Lisa Erspamer … Associate Producer
- Terry Goulder … Associate Producer
- Lisa Youngblood Hall … Associate Producer
- Angie Kraus … Associate Producer
- Tara McNally … Associate Producer
- Lesia Minor … Associate Producer
- Melinda Morrison … Associate Producer
- Candi Nichols … Associate Producer
- Laura Grant Sillars … Associate Producer
- Andrew Wishom … Associate Producer
- Jill Van Lokeren … Associate Producer
- Lisa Morin … Associate Producer
- Teresa Crawford … Associate Producer
- Becky Liscum … Associate Producer
- Jack Mori … Associate Producer
- Mary Monahan … Associate Producer
- Duke Struck … Director
- Oprah Winfrey … Host
- Bernice King … Guest
- Ralph Abernathy
- Maya Angelou
- Halle Berry
- Natalie Cole
- Myrlie Evers
- Whoopi Goldberg
- Louis Gossett Jr.
- Bryant Gumbel
- Andrew Hacker
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- Spike Lee
- LL Cool J
- Dennis Rodman
- Yusef Salmann
- Betty Shabazz