EXCLUSIVE
Oprah's connecting the dots between the recent police involved shootings, and the civil rights movement of the '50s and '60s ... telling us it sometimes feels like not that much has changed.
We got O outside the new National Museum of African American History and Culture in D.C. ... she'd just made her first visit, and says the Emmettt Till exhibit hit her hard. Till was lynched in 1955, and his death helped spark the civil rights movement.
She also gave us her 2 cents on people anointing Prez Obama the greatest black man of all time. You gotta see if she's on board with that sentiment.