Black history month. - The people that made a difference.

[SolidSnake76]

sports, almost everyone in the world know who he is, besides, most of these pple here[the unintellengent one] would metion him like 10 times. put down sum1 u never heard of. my go....

oprah winfrey

a good role model and the santa clause to pple in need. the real america's sweetheart. born in 1954, she amused herself by performing for an audience of farm animals and corncob dolls, at an early age. she could read at age 3 and she recited speeches in church. after six years with her grandmother, her mother sent for her and oprahlived with her in a housing project in milwaukee, minesota. her mother was too busy to pay her any mind and she was abused by several men she trusted. oprah started a life of crime, nearly ending up in a detension hall. she went back to her father.

oprah was in nashville east high school when she entered broadcasting and read news for WVOL radio in nashville. she discovered the world of television in her sophmore year at tenesse state university where she majored in drama and speech. she was on WJZ-TV in baltimore after granduating. oprah then moved on to WLS-TV in chicago to host A.M. chicago, which became The Oprah Winfrey Show in 1985 and it went national. in that same year, she played sophie in The Color Purple and won both an golden globe and an academy award and formed her own production company: Harpo Production[that explains why her name is backwards when they show that after her show] to control her show and produce videos and flims for social importance.

oprah is the first black woman and the third woman in the U.S. to own a television and flim production studio. she also launched a television book club for her veiwers. i meet oprah once in the kings plaza mall in brooklyn, NYC[ma hometown] and this inspirational woman is a powerful one.