Since the COVID-19 pandemic hit the United States and lockdowns began nationwide, media mogul and philanthropist Oprah Winfrey has been looking for ways to help. After signing a major development deal with Apple TV, she’s been releasing a series of free coronavirus-related content on the platform to help viewers cope with our new reality.
Just hours before Shadow And Act sat down with Oprah Winfrey and Tarell Alvin McCraney to chat about their new OWN series David Makes Man, news broke that Toni Morrison had died. There had been an atmospheric shift at the literary giant’s transition into an ancestor, and to not discuss the
On Oprah Winfrey’s Emmy award-winning Super Soul Sunday show, she invites guests to her Montecito, California home–spiritual teachers, celebrities, ordinary people who have achieved the extraordinary–to sit in the shade of massive oak trees and share what they have learned on their faith journeys. On an October Sunday morning, she flips the
In the Old Testament, the Promised Land was a place God agreed to give to the newly freed descendants of Abram. In Negro Spirituals, it was a place free from slavery and oppression—if not on earth, then in Heaven. For Oprah Winfrey, descendant of enslaved people and daughter of rural Mississippi,
On April 19, 2017, Brooke Obie caught up with the Queen of Media, Ms. Oprah Winfrey at a New York press junket for her new film The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Ms. Winfrey was so stunned to see only Black women journalists at the press junket that she began to