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Oprah Winfrey Will Become 1st Black Woman to Receive the Cecil B. DeMille Award
Queen Mother Oprah Winfrey is like a fine wine. She just gets better and better as time goes on, and in acknowledgment of the multitalented personality’s lifetime of achievements, she is set to be the latest recipient of the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the Golden Globes. And because Oprah just continues to bust all…
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Discovery Communications Shells Out $70,000,000 to Buy Majority Stake in the Oprah Winfrey Network
Discovery Communications parted with a cool $70 million to buy a majority interest in the Oprah Winfrey Network. As the Los Angeles Times notes, prior to the deal, OWN was a 50-50 joint venture between the trailblazing star and the mass communication company. However, as of Monday, Discovery’s ownership stake increased to almost 75 percent.…
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Watch: OWN’s Black Love Digs Into the Best Hollywood Couples’ Love Lives for Honest and Raw Advice
Black love is about to get more than hashtaggable attention. Oprah Winfrey’s OWN has decided to make black love into a docuseries of the same name. Winfrey tapped filmmakers Codie Elaine Oliver and Tommy Oliver (The Perfect Guy) and Confluential Films for the new show Black Love. OK, so what is it? Black Love highlights…
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4 Reasons Why Greenleaf Is the Show the Black Church Needs
Editor’s note: The following article contains spoilers. Having worked in a black church for over 10 years, I think I can say without concern of successful contradiction that church folks can be petty. From disagreements over who will sing lead in the mass-choir musical to bickering about what color the toothpicks will be at the…