oprah winfrey
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Oprah Delivers the Most Elegant, Unbothered Clapback to Trump’s Twitter Nonsense
Leave it to Oprah Winfrey to hit snooze on the bullshit. In an interview with Ellen DeGeneres on Thursday, the Queen Mother of Living Your Best Life revealed how she responded to Donald Trump’s attack on her following a piece she did for 60 Minutes. The 60 Minutes segment, which aired Sunday, featured Oprah with…
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Let’s Do It Again: Send Our Girls to See A Wrinkle in Time!
Black America, we turned out in record-breaking numbers last weekend to see and support the most anticipated film of the year, Black Panther. It was a triumph as epic as the film itself. But Panther isn’t the only black-helmed film being released by Disney this winter; we are now only two weeks away from the…
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O, Tiff! Tiffany Haddish Teaches Us the Importance of Being Earnest With Oprah
Is there anyone quite as adorable as Tiffany Haddish? The comedian and actress is making a scene-stealing and increasingly successful career out of her unfiltered, around-the-way, every-girl humor, and audiences everywhere are eating it up. So it was no surprise that Haddish, our homegirl in our minds, stole the show while appearing on Ellen Thursday,…
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I Finally Saw Drake’s ‘God’s Plan’ Video, and Drake Is All Right With Me
Yesterday I saw Drake’s video for “God’s Plan,” the song he dropped a few weeks back that is currently sitting atop Billboard’s Hot 100 chart for the fourth straight week. When I checked it out yesterday, it was sitting at roughly 25 million views on YouTube, and as of today, it’s nearing 30 million. I…
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Donald Trump Calls Oprah ‘Insecure,’ Challenges Her to Run for President, Has Obviously Lost His Damn Mind
So, Oprah Winfrey is (probably) not running for president. We have to make that clear. She is (more than likely) not running! Of course, she can if she wants to. Because she’s Oprah, and if Oprah says, “Hey, y’all. I want to do this thing,” you don’t say, “No, Oprah, you cannot do this thing…
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It’s Over for Russell Simmons; Oprah Has Excommunicated Him
There are many things in life that people bounce back from. The loss of a job, the end of a relationship, a short illness, a sports-related injury and a bad first date are all things you can rebound from—given enough time. You know what you don’t rebound from? Oprah excommunicating you. And this is why…
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You Go, O! Oprah Dazzles in March’s InStyle Magazine
Oprah may not be running for president, but she’s still running circles around the rest of Hollywood, appearing on the March cover of InStyle magazine in anticipation of her appearance as Mrs. Which in the Ava DuVernay-directed A Wrinkle in Time. At 63, the icon is clearly still living her best life, showing off her…
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Oprah Winfrey Is Not Running for President, so Stop Making Those Bootleg T-Shirts and Mugs
We can all let go of the idea of Gayle King as vice president, Ava DuVernay as the secretary of education and, unfortunately for diplomatic relations, Iyanla Vanzant as ambassador to the United Nations. Sadly, middle-American white women, who all wore pink pussy hats during the recent Women’s Marches and yet secretly voted for Donald…
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Why Oprah’s Visit to Recy Taylor’s Grave Matters
Before there was #MeToo, there was Recy Taylor, a black woman living in Alabama who was gang-raped by white supremacists in 1944—the height of the Jim Crow era. Taylor died late last year, but not before her story—and her long fight for justice—began to receive the national attention it so richly deserved. Earlier this month,…