Former New Orleans Mayor on Removing Confederate Monuments: "They Had to Come Down"

Mitch Landrieu, the former mayor of New Orleans, opens up to Oprah about his controversial, headline-making decision to remove four prominent Confederate monuments that had stood in his city for more than 100 years. "When I really got into actually who put them there, why they were there, what was going on, I pretty much knew that they had to come down," he says. "And then I just had to figure out how to get it done. And a lot of people had tried this before. A lot of people had worked on it, so I was standing on the shoulders of lots of people who had been through this issue for many, many, many years."

Listen to Oprah and Mitch Landrieu's full interview on Oprah's Super Soul Conversations podcast, available on Apple Podcasts beginning Monday, August 6.