Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Gail Winfrey (born January 29, 1954) is an American television presenter, media mogul and philanthropist. Her internationally-syndicated talk show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, has earned her multiple Emmy Awards and is the highest-rated talk show in the history of television. wiki
"Chairman, Angel Network Support Foundation and Oprah's Angel Network; National Spokesperson, A Better Chance; Member, Board of Advisors, Quincy Jones Listen Up Foundation; Founder, The Oprah Winfrey Foundation; Creator, The Oprah Winfrey Scholars Program; Former Board Member, Reading is Fundamental, an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution." [1]
In 2000, "NAACP Board of Directors Chairman Julian Bond announced that Oprah Winfrey would be presented the 85th NAACP Spingarn Award during a banquet at the New York Hilton Hotel and Towers in New York City on Thursday, November 16, 2000." [2]
- Founder, Oprah's Angel Network
- Council, National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Winner of a 1998 Jefferson Awards
- Top 100 of The New Establishment
- Chairman, Harpo, Inc.
- Cofounder, Oxygen Media, Inc.
- Patron, Desmond Tutu Peace Trust (S.A.) [3]
- Recipient of the Bob Hope Humanitarian Award [4]
Related Books
- Vicki Abt and Leonard Mustazza, Coming after Oprah : cultural fallout in the age of the TV talk show (Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1997).
- Janice Peck, The Age of Oprah: Cultural Icon for the Neoliberal Era (Paradigm, 2008).
- Kathryn Lofton, Oprah: The Gospel of an Icon (University of California Press, March 2011). Interview
Resources and articles
Related Sourcewatch articles
References
- ↑ Council, National Museum of African American History and Culture, accessed January 12, 2009.
- ↑ NAACP Awards Oprah Winfrey 85th Spingarn Award, Highbeam, accessed January 12, 2009.
- ↑ Contact, Desmond Tutu Peace Foundation, accessed January 7, 2011.
- ↑ Bob Hope Humanitarian Award, emmys.tv, accessed January 10, 2011.
