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Created by willoprah on Mar 21, 2011

Last updated: 04/08/11 at 11:11 AM

• Leadership Academy
  2007

  Oprah created the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for girls in South Africa to help girls that there life started bad like her and build wschools for them

• Radio
  2006

  Oprah signed a three year $55 million dollar contract with XM Radio. She created it for moms in need for advice

• Magazine
  2000

  Oprah created her own magizine named O

• Lifetime award
  1998

  She recieved the Lifetime Achievment award

• Angel Network
  1997

  Oprah founded her own Angel Network

• Jobs
  1993

  Oprah stated her own talk show in Chicago after being fired on her old news show

• Entertainer of the year award
  1989

  She rthecieved the national association for the advancement of colored people of the year

• Oprah Show
  1988

  Oprah formed Harpo Studios ( where her show is )

• College
  1987

  Oprah finished her college after dropping out for a little bit

• Emmy Award
  1987

  Oprah won her first Emmy Award for best talk show

• Jobs
  1986

  Oprahs show only aired in Chicago now

• Oprah Winfrey Show
  1985

  Her show was renamed as the Oprah Winfrey Show

• Jobs
  1976

  Oprah was on a 6 oclock news show in baltimore for her first job

• Birth
  Jan 29, 1954

  Southern, Mississippi, Born to divorced parents and very poor.