How Oprah Winfrey built her billion-dollar empire and became Hollywood royalty Natasha Mwansa
It’s difficult to imagine a living person more integral to the cultural psyche than Oprah Winfrey. If the US had a monarchy, Oprah Winfrey would be its Queen with an endorsement from her akin to a kind of showbiz knighthood.
It only makes sense then, that when actual royalty need a platform to tell their story, they go to Oprah. Her interview with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, which aired in the US last night, unleashed a dramatic set of bombshell revelations, this side of the pond we can watch the interview on ITV tonight at 9pm.
Neighbors and family members gathered Tuesday afternoon at the Robbins home of Doretha Harper to celebrate the 100th birthday of an active, churchgoing community member that family members said worked as an actress and appeared in a short-lived 1990 Oprah Winfrey TV show, “Brewster Place.”
50 Companies Founded by Black Entrepreneurs
By Peter Richman, Stacker News
On 2/26/21 at 8:00 PM EST
The entrepreneurial spirit is a cornerstone of American culture, but history books too often leave out the extensive contributions of minorities and women. In honor of Black History Month, Stacker is shining a light on 50 Black entrepreneurs who made a lasting influence on the business world and, often in the process, civil rights from the Revolutionary War to today.
The abrupt end to slavery in 1865 following the conclusion of the Civil War freed about 4 million people but left them without a clear trajectory forward. Black Codes afforded freed people the right to sue in court and marry but stipulated other discriminatory rules like keeping them from serving on juries or in state militias.
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TGIF, Illinois. We’ve had some week. Cheers to a quiet weekend (please).
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Mayor Lori Lightfoot accused Ald. Ed Burke Thursday night of trying to sabotage her plans for Covid-19 relief funding the way he thwarted legislation decades ago during the notorious Council Wars.