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Oprah Gail Winfrey was born to a teenage mother into a harsh community with rough conditions.
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Roger Ebert's show, At The Movies, was renamed The Oprah Winfrey Show, extended to a full hour, and broadcast nationally,
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The Oprah Magazine, sometimes simply abbreviated to O, is a monthly magazine founded by Oprah Winfrey and Hearst Corporation, primarily marketed at women. As of June 2004, its average paid circulation was over 2.7 million copies.
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Winfrey and Discovery Communications announced plans to change Discovery Health Channel into a new channel called OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network. It was scheduled to launch in 2009, but was delayed, and actually launched on January 1, 2011.
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After 25 years of life-changing television, Oprah steps onto the stage for the last time to share her greatest lessons and hopes for her viewers.
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Oprah Winfrey has donated $12 million to the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture. The media mogul previously gave $1 million to the museum, bringing her total gift to $13 million. According to the Smithsonian, this is the museum's largest donation to date.
