via BCNN1: Oprah Winfrey isn’t just friends with Meghan Markle, she’s also spent some quality time with the Duchess’ mom, Doria Ragland. Before the extravagant Royal Wedding, which Winfrey attended, the media mogul made headlines for spending the afternoon with Markle’s mom, where the pair spent their day snacking and doing yoga. Speaking with ET’s […]
via praisebaltimore: During her 40-plus year career, Oprah Winfrey has won numerous Emmys, an honorary Oscar and the hearts of America as we sat in our living rooms. Now, her legacy is being immortalized at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. “Watching Oprah: The Oprah Winfrey Show and American Culture,” is an exhibition about […]
via BlackAmericaWeb: Anthony Ray Hinton, wrongly imprisoned for nearly 30 years, can hardly believe how his luck has changed. Hinton’s memoir, “The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row,” is Oprah Winfrey’s latest book club pick, a dream for virtually any writer and beyond the imagination for a man who was once […]
via joy105: Oprah Winfrey speaks to graduates at USC’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. “The number one lesson I can offer you where your work is concerned,” said the media titan, “is this: Become so skilled, so vigilant, so flat-out fantastic at what you do, that your […]
via eurweb: Oprah Winfrey has sold 25% of her stake in Weight Watchers. She invested $43 million back in 2015 at a price of about $6.75/share. She will make a $65 million profit on this 25% sale alone — a sale she said was intended to balance her investment portfolio. “I am deeply committed to Weight Watchers […]
via BCNN1: For the second time since her Golden Globes speech raised hopes that Oprah Winfrey would enter politics, the star has thrown out the possibility of a run for the White House. In a new interview with WSJ. Magazine, Winfrey said there’s ‘no way’ she’ll ever be president because it’s not something she thinks she would be […]
via CNN: Future printings of Oprah Winfrey’s spiritual self-help book, “The Wisdom of Sundays,” will not include contributions from former hip-hop music executive Russell Simmons, according to the book’s publisher. The decision comes as Simmons faces multiple accusations of sexual misconduct, including rape. Simmons has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing. “All future printings of ‘The Wisdom […]
via BlackAmericaWeb: It looks like 2018 is off to a fiery start! TV Mogul Oprah Winfrey is gracing the cover of InStyle magazine’s March issue and we can’t stop looking at it. With her Golden Globes speech still lighting up social media, Oprah seems to be breaking the mold with her latest magazine cover, showing a push for diversity. […]
Today the Praise 94.5 Family wants to shine the spotlight on a woman that have changed the game in entertainment..news..business we could go on and on!! Happy Birthday Oprah!! Winfrey was born in Kosciusko, Mississippi, to an unmarried teenage mother. She later said that her conception was due to a single sexual encounter and the […]
via CBS/FirstLadyB: Oprah Winfrey sits down with Shonda Rhimes, Reese Witherspoon, Tracee Ellis Ross and other women in Hollywood about the impact of the Times Up! movement for CBS Sunday Morning. Via CBS: Some of the most prominent women in Hollywood open up to Oprah Winfrey about the impact of the Time’s Up campaign on raising awareness of sexual harassment in the workplace, and […]
via BlackAmericaWeb: With a red carpet dyed black by actresses dressed in a color-coordinated statement, the Golden Globes were transformed into an A-list expression of female empowerment in the post-Harvey Weinstein era. Oprah Winfrey led the charge. “For too long women have not been heard or believed if they dared to speak their truth to the power […]
via BCNN1: Oprah Winfrey has said that winds are creating a ‘perfect storm of bad’ as massive wildfires bear down on her celebrity enclave in California. Santa Barbara County issued new evacuation orders on Saturday for Oprah’s home in Montecito and other communities in the area, as winds pushed the fire close to the wealthy enclave. […]
