Smithsonian Channel & Oprah Winfrey Team On New Documentary Tackling Racial Disparities In Healthcare
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: The Smithsonian Channel and Oprah Winfrey‘s Harpo Productions are partnering on The Color of Care, a new documentary that chronicles how people of color suffer from systemically substandard healthcare in the United States and how Covid-19 exposed the tragic consequences of these inequities.
The project premieres on May 1 at 8 p.m.The documentary traces the origins of racial health disparities to practices that began during slavery in the U.S.
and continue today. It will feature testimony from people who lost loved ones to Covid-19 and frontline medical workers in overwhelmed hospitals.
With the combination of interviews from experts and data, The Color of Care exposes the devastating toll of racism that is embedded in our healthcare system, the network shared.“At the height of the pandemic, I read something that stopped me in my tracks,” said Winfrey, Executive Producer. “I read a story about Gary Fowler, a Black man that died in his home because no hospital would treat him despite his Covid-19 symptoms.
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