Standing Up to Racism | Soledad O'Brien

Soledad O'Brien (0:00)

How do you say, I really want to figure out how we have these conversations about race in America? It's like, so step one, what's happening within your own organization, and how do you fix it? And if you're not willing to do that, then you really don't care. And guess what? All this will be over in two weeks. So you can go back to hiding your head, it'll all be fine.

Put out a nice little statement, and it'll all go away.

Michael Gervais (0:31)

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She is an award-winning documentarian, a journalist, speaker, author, and philanthropist. She currently anchors and produces Matter of Fact with Soledad O'Brien. And she also reports regularly on HBO's Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel. And she's anchored shows on CNN, MSNBC, NBC, and she's hosted projects for Fox and A&E. She's been there. She's done that. And she also anchored the CNN documentary unit, where she created the documentary series, I'm sure you've heard of both of these, Black in America and Latino in America. So what perfect timing to have her in this conversation to share her insights. She's also won three Emmy Awards for her coverage on the Haiti earthquake, the 2012 election, and a series called Kids and Race.