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Oprah's Reaction to Eating This White Woman's Seasonless Chicken is All of Us
Imagine a world bereft of Lawry’s. Potato salad defiled by acorns and raisins. Brussel sprouts and squash drowning in tubs of mac and cheese. For the Caucasian contingent, this is every day life. But for the rest of us, this is a fate reserved for nightmares and therapist couches. In 2006, a domestic terrorist by…
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Who’s That Lady? Oprah Leads Our Bimonthly Black Magazine Cover Roundup!
How’s this for recognizability: Elle India was so confident in Oprah’s famous image that acclaimed photographer Mark Seliger shot one of their two 22nd anniversary covers with the “queen of all media” facing away from camera, showing off a heavily embellished jacket by Anamika Khanna. On an alternate cover and inside the issue, we see…
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Sad News: Oprah's Mother, Vernita Lee, Died on Thanksgiving Day
Sad news for Oprah Winfrey and half-sister Patricia Amanda Faye Lee, as People confirms that their mother, Vernita Lee, died at her home in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, at age 83 on Thanksgiving Day. No details on her cause of death have been given at this time. Winfrey is the eldest child of Lee, who was also…
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Thanks-living: How a Few of Our Faves Gave Thanks This Holiday
Real talks? We don’t all agree that Thanksgiving is a holiday worth celebrating. After all, its colonialist roots resulted in the genocide and marginalization of indigenous people—and later, imported and immigrating people—the effects of which persist to this day. So, yeah…there’s that. But as black folks have been doing for centuries (see: soul food), even…
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The Coronation of Our Queen Cicely Tyson at the 2018 Governors Awards
Last night, I had the privilege to attend the 2018 Governors Awards in Hollywood, Calif., and saw Cicely Tyson receive her honorary Oscar. She is the first black woman to ever win the honor. In a career that has spanned nearly 70 years, the 93-year-old actress has starred with some of the best and the…
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At 93, Cicely Tyson Gets Her 1st Oscar—and Danai Gurira Gets Mistaken for Viola Davis?
It was an honor more than 45 years in the making, but Cicely Tyson finally took home an Oscar on Sunday night at the 10th annual Governors Awards in Hollywood, Ca. Voted on by the board of governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Governors Awards were created to grant honorary…
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Under the Influence: If Every Vote Counts, How Much Should a Celebrity Endorsement?
It was the kind of Hail Mary some pray for—like a last-minute, death-row pardon. But when Beyoncé publicly threw her support behind Texas senatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke, reactions were mixed, to say the least. Self-affirmed stans of the superstar praised their queen, while others understandably asked why she’d waited until the eleventh hour to use…
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Vice President Pence to Oprah: ‘This Ain’t Hollywood’
On Thursday, Vice President Mike Pence, the White House’s own version of Aaron Carter, was out stumping for Georgia gubernatorial candidate and current Georgia secretary of state and chief manipulator of votes, Brian Kemp. Pence, like the rest of America, has heard that Kemp’s opponent Stacey Abrams, the woman on the cusp of becoming the…
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Oprah Winfrey to Join Stacey Abrams on Her Historic Campaign to Become the First Black Woman Governor
With less than a week to go before Georgia decides if Democrat Stacey Abrams will become the country’s first black woman governor, Abrams just received a huge endorsement from black America’s second favorite first lady, Oprah Winfrey. The television talk show host turned television mogul has joined sides to help battle the fuck boy shit…