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Oprah Gail Winfrey (born Orpah Gail Winfrey; January 29, 1954) is an American media executive, actress, talk show host, television producer, and philanthropist. She is best known for her talk show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, broadcast from Chicago, which was the highest-rated television program of its kind in history and ran in national syndication for 25 years from 1986 to 2011. Dubbed the "Queen of All Media", she was the richest African American of the 20th century and North America's first black multi-billionaire, and she has been ranked the greatest black philanthropist in American history. By 2007, she was sometimes ranked as the most influential woman in the world.
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Oprah Picks James McBride’s ‘Deacon King Kong’ For Book Club
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etcanada.comOprah Winfrey has chosen James McBride’s “Deacon King Kong” for her book club. McBride’s novel is set in a Brooklyn housing project in 1969 and centers on the shooting of a drug dealer by an aging and tipsy church deacon.
But it also pays tribute to community and to McBride’s own childhood in a Brooklyn project. “I wanted to write about a world I love and respect and how we learned to get along,” he told The Associated Press during a telephone interview. “We had racial problems in the ’60s and ’70s, but we weren’t at each other’s throats.
It was a little different, and the police weren’t militarized, with all of these military weapons.” RELATED: Oprah Winfrey Gives Grants To ‘Home’ Cities During Pandemic Tuesday’s announcement of “Deacon
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