Oprah Winfrey: The Most Famous Activist

This week a researched a paper based on a famous historical figure,
Oprah Gail Winfrey was born on January 29, 1954. The reason why I choose this person on a famous Historical figure, Because she is a talk show host, Producer, actress, an American media proprietor and philanthropist. She is mostly known for her talk show,
The Oprah Winfrey Show, from 1986 to 2011 she had the highest rated television program of its kind in history, she also has been known as “ Queen of all media.”
Oprah has been even ranked the richest African American of the 20th century. Oprah
Winfrey has also been ranked for the greatest black philanthropist in

Back in 2015, she was awarded the presidential Medal Of Freedom by the president
Barack Obama. The presidential Medal of freedom is an award by the president of the
United States and is along with the comparable congressional gold metal. She also wrote books such as Cooper, Irene (2007). Oprah Winfrey.Viking. Mair, George (2001(. Oprah
Winfrey. The real story. Her years active is 1983- still present and her salary is 75 million. Oprah Winfrey is the chair woman and CEO of Harpo Productions and is also a chair woman, CEO and CCO of the Oprah Winfrey network. When Oprah Winfrey was 17, she won the miss fire prevention contest in Nashville Tennessee. Oprah Winfrey is actually also one of the worlds best neoliberal capitalist thinkers. Oprah Winfrey
Talked about the topics based on divorce, depression, alcoholism, child abuse, adultery, and incest, these type of topics had never before been discussed with such candor and empathy on television. Oprah”s popularity stems in part from her message of

( Nicole Aschoff, May 2015)
In its early years the show followed a “ recovery model” In which guest and viewers were encouraged to overcome their problems through self- esteem building and learning to love themselves. ( Nicole Aschoff, May 2015) Oprah Winfrey was born in Mississippi to a single mother as a teenager and later raised in an Milwaukee neighborhood. She said she was even molested during her childhood and early teens and became pregnant only at age 14, her child died as a little infant. Winfrey got a job in radio while she still was in high school and began co-anchoring the local evening news when she was 19 years old. Her emotional story delivery eventually got her transferred to the daytime- talk show arena, and after boosting a third- related local Chicago talk show to first place. In
2005, Winfrey was named the greatest woman in American history, The power of
Winfrey’s opinions and endorsement to influence public opinion. In April 2014,