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Stephen Sackur speaks to the multi-award-winning black actor Alfre Woodard.

Stephen Sackur speaks to the multi-award-winning black actor Alfre Woodard. In this presidential election year, can art and activism merge to tackle racial discrimination?

Racial discrimination is America's wound that refuses to heal. And 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. HARDtalk's 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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