Posted on January 29, 2020
Born on this date in 1954...
Born into poverty in rural Mississippi...
Born to a teenage single mother...
Raised in inner-city Milwaukee...
She didn't have a chance for success, did she?
Yet Oprah Winfrey was smart enough, talented enough, ambitious enough, and persistent enough to become one of the richest, most famous, and most respected African American people ever!
She's even one of the few people recognized by just her first name: Oprah! (Cher and Madonna and Beyoncé are in the same situation.)
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Oprah started out in radio while she was in high school, and she was co-anchor for local evening news at just 19 years old! Since then she has been a talk show host, actor, television producer, and media executive - as well as a philanthropist and activist! She has co-authored five books, and she publishes her own magazine (O, The Oprah Magazine). AND she has even started her own network (OWN - the Oprah Winfrey Network).
Oprah's show was the highest-rated TV program of its kind in history and ran for 25 years! Here are a few of the honors she has received:
- Inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame
- Presidential Medal of Freedom
- NAACP Image Award Hall of Fame
- Honorary doctorate degrees from Duke and Harvard
- Appearing on lists, sometimes as #1, such as "Most influential woman" / "Most influential people" / "Most powerful celebrity" / "Greatest Americans" / etc. - TIME, Life, Forbes, and more!
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