Soledad O’Brien is an award-winning journalist, speaker, author and philanthropist who anchors and produces the Hearst Television political magazine program Matter of Fact with Soledad O’Brien. O’Brien, founder and CEO of Soledad O’Brien Productions, also reports for HBO Real Sports, the PBS NewsHour, WebMD and has authored two books. She has appeared on networks, Fox and Oxygen and anchored and reported for NBC, MSNBC and CNN. She has won numerous awards, including three Emmys, the George Peabody award, an Alfred I DuPont prize and the Gracie. Newsweek named her one of the “15 People Who Make America Great.” With her husband, she is founder of the PowHERful Foundation that helps young women get to and through college.
The newscaster-turned-film producer and a leading epidemiologist write about the state of America and why, due to an absence of leadership, the people need to forge a path forward.
<p>The newswoman and CEO writes about what we can do to curb this vicious cycle of imprisonment. O’Brien’s doc <i>Kids Behind Bars</i> premieres April 12 on Al Jazeera America. </p>
I have seen too many young women held back by their mothers, just when they are starting to see their own promise. It’s a brutal truth. By Soledad O’Brien.
