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Oprah Winfrey, Ava DuVernay and Queen Sugar Cast Discuss Season 2 and Diversity on TV
About eight women gathered in a circle and waited patiently for Oprah Winfrey and the stars of Queen Sugar to walk into a hotel room at the Four Seasons Beverly Hills in Los Angeles during a press junket sponsored by OWN. As we all sat there, trying to prep ourselves, there was a buzz of…
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Oprah Winfrey Says She’ll Never Run for President
If you had your hopes set on a 2020 Oprah Winfrey presidential run, it’s not happening. During an interview on the Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast, Winfrey spoke about running for office, and put to rest rumors that it’s a possibility. “I will never run for public office,” Winfrey said. “That’s a pretty definitive thing.”…
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Oprah Winfrey Can’t Save Underground Because It’s Too Expensive
When news came that WGN was canceling Underground, fans of the show were in shock, but as the shock wore off, fans and its creator, John Legend, called out to one person to help save the show: Oprah Winfrey. But unfortunately, Winfrey says she can’t bring Underground to OWN. During a roundtable discussion in Los…
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Watch: Queen Sugar’s 2nd-Season Trailer
It looks as though the three Bordelon children in OWN’s Queen Sugar have some major drama brewing in season 2. In the new trailer that dropped this week, siblings Nova (Rutina Wesley), Charley (Dawn-Lyen Gardner) and Ralph Angel (Kofi Siriboe) aren’t on the same page when it comes to cultivating the sugarcane farm, from a…
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Mo’Nique Tells Lee Daniels, Tyler Perry, Oprah to Suck Her Dick
Mo’Nique didn’t bite her tongue during a recent standup show, and had a few words for Lee Daniels, Tyler Perry and Oprah Winfrey. Since appearing in Daniels’ film Precious, Mo’Nique has routinely talked about being blackballed by Hollywood. But this time she’s naming more names. “No, I was not blackballed; I was white-balled by some…
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For the Henrietta Lacks Family, It’s a Matter of Who Gets to Tell Their Story
Who can tell your family’s story? That’s one of the key issues the book and now HBO film, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, raises. It’s one that Henrietta Lacks’ son Lawrence and his son, Ron, have been asking for some time now. Henrietta Lacks is the woman whose cells, named HeLa, were able to…
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Nothing Can Prepare You for How Powerful The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Is
Writers tell stories in hopes that not only are they read but they also come to life. This is what has happened to Rebecca Skloot’s book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, which chronicles the tragic tale of Lacks, a 31-year-old black woman from Clover, Va., whose terminal-cancer diagnosis and undying cells ended up changing…
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Wherever 2 or 3 Black Girls and Oprah Are Gathered Together, Magic Is in the Midst
Earlier this week, journalists were called to a swanky hotel in New York City to sit with the (majority-black) cast and director (George C. Wolfe) of HBO’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. We weren’t given many details—just where to be and at what time. With Oprah Winfrey leading the star-studded cast, we could only…
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No, Lee Daniels, We Don’t Need Another Movie About the Down Low
Lee Daniels recently announced the premise behind his upcoming remake of the ’80s sentimental classic Terms of Endearment. In the original, Debra Winger’s character dies of cancer, but in this filmmaker’s version, which also will feature Oprah Winfrey, one of the leads will have AIDS—a disease she contracted by having sex with a man who…