by Charise Frazier via MadameNoire.com Oprah Winfrey is opening up about the last days she spent with her mother before she died on Thanksgiving day. Winfrey’s mother Vernita Lee, 83, died on November 22 after a long battle with diabetes, the media mogul revealed. Lee passed away at home in Milwaukee. Winfrey also revealed her …
Kevin Winter/Getty Images By Erickka Sy Savané If there was any doubt that Oprah Winfrey is still the queen of television, make no mistake, she is the undisputed champ. After pulling her OWN network from the ashes following a slow start, to the highest rated network for African American women, Oprah is taking it up …
Tina Lifford By Brenda Alexander Aunt Vi, played by Tina Lifford on Queen Sugar, is a character unlike any middle aged black woman we’ve ever seen on the small screen. She’s older but with a young spirit and swag, sexy without trying and motherly without seeming elderly. To top it off, she has a man …
By Brenda Alexander When OWN debuted, I was disappointed. Between the reruns of Dr. Phil and 20/20, I couldn’t figure out what the hell Auntie O was doing. Fast-forward to today and she’s developed some of the greatest quality shows and content television has ever seen. OWN’s seasonal campaign is “See Yourself” and that’s exactly …
Cardi B via IG (left) & Oprah listening to Cardi B’s album via instagram (right) By Ta-ning Connai When I first saw the Instagram post of Oprah showing some love for Cardi B’s album ‘Invasion of Privacy,’ my first thought was, “Dang, Oprah done officially went hood!” Then my second thought was, “Dang, Oprah is …
Amara la Negra covers Latina magazine By Erickka Sy Savané I remember the first time I saw model Kirsti Bowser on the cover of Elle magazine when I was around 14 years old. To see a black woman in such a prominent place gave me the courage to say, maybe, just maybe, I could do …
Oprah & Tiffany on the Ellen DeGeneres Show By Erickka Sy Savané One of the reasons we love Tiffany Haddish so much is that she keeps it all the way real. Like, really real. So we wouldn’t expect anything less when she went on the Ellen DeGeneres show the other day and got to meet …
By Mwabi Kaira Are you watching ‘Black Love’ on OWN? Oprah Winfrey has taken her Master Class series and turned the lens on couples for a master class on love. Husband and wife filmmakers Codie and Tommy Oliver interviewed famous and everyday married couples about how they fell …
