Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Winfrey was born on January 29, 1954, in the countryside of Mississippi. Her career started as a journalist in 1971 when she registered to a college in Tennessee! When Oprah was in her early twenties she joined her college radio station. A few years later she was the first black women TV reporter in Nashville. When she graduated college, she moved to Baltimore Maryland to host her first talk show at the age of twenty-four! When she started the talk show she was criticized for her energetic presence on the show. But in 1983 she became the host of a thirty-minute talk show in Chicago, Illinois. When Oprah showed her real personality her talk show earned a higher ranking. When Oprah was thirty-two the Oprah Winfrey show made its national debut and made her the first black woman to host a syndicated talk show. Oprah wanted to discuss on the talk show the issues that have not been discussed in anyways. In one of Oprah’s shows, she revealed that she was a survivor of abuse since the age of nine! Using her own experience she used her experience to raise awareness and give people that survived this horrible thing a voice. She also used her talk show to take action for kids everywhere. In 1993 she became the main voice Of the national children protection act, also known as “the Oprah bill”.