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by Jenée Desmond-Harris onJanuary 3, 2011
Our writer watched a full day of Oprah Winfrey's new network, and she'd do it again.
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by Jennifer E. Mabry onDecember 30, 2010
Oprah Winfrey literally changed the face of daytime television. She's got more power and influence than just about anybody in the free world. Too bad her much hyped cable network serves up more of the same reality-TV dreck that you find on all the other channels.
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by Nsenga Burton onDecember 29, 2010
A media blitz has been preparing viewers for Lady O's favorite new thing of the year -- a cable channel that's all her own.
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December 14, 2010
If Winfrey brings the prize-winning play Ruined to HBO, it will be the latest in a long line of acclaimed works by black writers that Winfrey has helped adapt for the screen.
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by Nsenga Burton onDecember 9, 2010
Lady O denies those pesky rumors that have been following her for years.
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by Nsenga Burton onDecember 3, 2010
Coming to a theater near you ...
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November 3, 2010
Tyler Perry got the last word when it came to For Colored Girls, but powerful black women have played integral roles in the play's journey from stage to screen.
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October 29, 2010
For Colored Girls, Tyler Perry's adaptation of Ntozake Shange's famous play, has been met with resistance from fans of the choreopoem. But it's not the first celebrated written work-turned-movie that critics feel should have been left alone.
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by Lauren Williams onOctober 15, 2010
Randy Jackson is angry that Oprah Winfrey filmed an interview in the Jackson home, taking to Twitter to complain that she's the "last person on earth" Michael Jackson would want around his children.
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by Lauren Williams onOctober 7, 2010
Is nothing sacred to Kanye West? Rumor has it, he's willing to incur the wrath of the mighty Oprah.
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