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Actress CCH Pounder Finds Second Life as Activist Emmy-nominated actress CCH Pounder won acclaim with roles on TV shows like ER, The Shield, and Law and Order: SVU. But she's also an activist and art gallery owner.

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Actress CCH Pounder Finds Second Life as Activist

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Emmy-nominated actress CCH Pounder won acclaim with roles on TV shows like ER, The Shield, and Law and Order: SVU.

But she's also an activist and art gallery owner.

She talks with Farai Chideya about founding the Pounder-Kone Art Space in Los Angeles and her decades-long work to fight AIDS and apartheid in Africa.

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