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Alfre Woodard - Actor

In this US presidential election year, race could be a decisive political issue. Stephen Sackur speaks to the multi-award-winning black actor Alfre Woodard.

Racial discrimination is America’s wound that refuses to heal. In this presidential election year, with Donald Trump in the White House and Black Lives Matter campaigners on the streets, race could be a decisive political issue. Stephen Sackur speaks to the multi-award-winning black actor Alfre Woodard. In her latest role she plays a prison warden responsible for administering executions on death row. Is this where art and activism merge into one?

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Thu 24 Sep 202003:30GMT
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PresenterStephen Sackur
Interviewed GuestAlfre Woodard

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