In the wake of the killings of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor, Oprah Winfrey hosted Black leaders to discuss policy reforms, including reparations and universal healthcare
"We find ourselves on a precipice, on a tipping point," Oprah Winfrey said as she opened a conversation with black artists and activists on Tuesday aimed at determining how America can funnel the rage and protests of recent weeks into action to eradicate systemic inequality and racism.
Following the May 25 killing of George Floyd, an unarmed black man who pleaded for air as a Minnesota police officer kneeled on his neck, as well as of Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery and ensuing protests nationwide, Winfrey's two-night conversation, called "Where Do We Go From Here?", featured director Ava DuVernay, former U.S. Rep. Stacey Abrams, actor David Oyelowo and Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, among several others.
Participants with experience crafting policies noted that while police killings reignited the conversation around Black death, other systemic issues need to be addressed that are even more deadly for Black Americans. Atlanta Mayor Bottoms, who said that she has been looking to the Civil Rights Movement for guidance, told the group she needed both "quick deliverables" for her community and also longer-term solutions. Former U.S. Rep.
Later in the conversation, Rev. William Barber II called for universal healthcare as one way to end needless Black death. Hannah-Jones added that the country needed to close the wealth gap between Black and white Americans and posed reparations as a solution for "70 years of unchanged wealth,"Following Floyd's death, police officer Derek Chauvin, who was caught on video pressing his knee into Floyd's neck, was charged with second-degree murder.
Protests against police violence have taken place in all 50 states, with high-profile Hollywood attendees such as
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