oprah winfrey
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Watch: What Would You Do for a Seat on Oprah’s Cabinet?
There’s been a lot of talk about Oprah Winfrey running for office in 2020. We really don’t deserve a presidency from Oprah or our forever FLOTUS, Michelle Obama, but we can always dream. What would you do for an Oprah presidency? These stars let us know. Watch above.
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Oprah Had Time Today: See How She Claps Back to Trolls on the ’Gram
Leave it to Oprah Winfrey to dismiss her Instagram haters while simultaneously helping them live their best life. On her official Instagram account, Oprah shared a clip from an interview she conducted with Time’s Up backers Reese Witherspoon, Shonda Rhimes, America Ferrera, Tracee Ellis Ross and Natalie Portman. Pretty standard Oprah stuff. Well, a troll…
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Tracee Ellis Ross, Shonda Rhimes, Reese Witherspoon Discuss Time’s Up Movement With Oprah Winfrey
Hollywood’s leading women gathered with Oprah Winfrey in Pasadena, Calif., this week to discuss Hollywood’s reckoning with sexual harassment and abuse and the resulting Time’s Up movement. The panel included actresses Reese Witherspoon, America Ferrera, Natalie Portman and Tracee Ellis Ross, as well as producer Shonda Rimes, Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy and attorney Nina Shaw.…
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Killer Mike: Oprah’s A’ight, but if I Had to Choose a Black Woman for President, I’d Pick …
The white daredevils at TMZ who stop celebrities at the airport and shove cameras in their faces caught up with rapper and activist Killer Mike (not to be confused with me—Flesh-Wounder Mike) at Los Angeles International Airport and asked him about the hype surrounding the potential presidential candidacy of Oprah Winfrey. (Side rant: Why does…
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What Was Oprah Really Saying?
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Trump Thinks He’d Beat Oprah in a 2020 Run for the White House
Looks like Donald Trump is continuing his lobotomy tour. First he asked members of Congress to bring him a Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals bill he can sign that would ensure that some 800,000 children of immigrants stay put; and now he honestly thinks that he could beat black America’s God Muva, Oprah Winfrey, in…
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Get Used to ‘President Oprah’ ( … and President Zuckerberg, President the Rock, President Bezos, President Beyoncé, President Kardashian, Etc.)
Every so often, I’ll be in a public and predominantly white space—the Pittsburgh airport, maybe, walking through the Ross Park Mall, perhaps, or at a high school basketball game in the Pittsburgh suburbs—doing whatever it is I’m doing there. Not thinking about anything, really, other than going through security, browsing Kyrie Colorways at Foot Locker…
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Oprah Is Not America’s Mammy; Please Don’t Ask Her to Clean Up This White President’s Mess
On Sunday, in her best presidentially coiffed hair and geek-chic specs, Oprah Winfrey delivered the speech at the Golden Globes as she took home the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement. While her speech touched on historical racism and sexism, which are woven into the fabric of Hollywood’s ethos, her speech transcended the moment,…
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Rosa Parks, Recy Taylor and Gertrude Perkins Are Mothers of the #MeToo Movement
In 2016, former Oklahoma City Police Officer and rapist Daniel Holtzclaw was sentenced to 263 years in prison for the rapes and sexual assaults of seven black women and one black girl, ranging in age from 17 to 58. He was found guilty of 18 of 36 charges, including four charges of first-degree rape, one…
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Uncle Denzel Reading a Takeout Menu During the Golden Globes Is the Blackest Thing That Ever Happened This Week
Denzel Washington is a living icon—a man so ensconced in our collective cultural consciousness that even his voice, his walk and his facial expressions are considered independent sentient beings. He was at the Golden Globes last night as his friend Oprah Winfrey received the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement—an honor he also received…