by Kitty Kelley
TV/DVDS/VIDEOS: Archive of American Television interview with Phil Donahue, May 9, 2001 (nine parts, viewed on YouTube); The Oprah Winfrey Show 20th Anniversary Collection (DVD set); Late Show with David Letterman, aired July 19, 2006; “Women Leaving Men for Other Women,” The Oprah Winfrey Show, aired Mar. 6, 2009; “Evangelist Ted Haggard, His Wife and the Gay Sex Scandal,” The Oprah Winfrey Show, aired Jan. 28, 2009; “Oprah Winfrey: Heart of the Matter,” A&E Biography special, aired Jan. 16, 2000.
INTERVIEWS: Gloria Steinem, June 5, 2007; Senator Robert Dole, May 23, 2008; Phil Donahue, Aug. 9, 2007; correspondence with Liz Smith, Sept. 25 and Sept. 26, 2007; confidential source, July 7, 2008; confidential source, Aug. 22, 2008; Rocky Twyman, May 20, 2008; Erica Jong, Dec. 17, 2006; Marty Ingels, Dec. 21, 2006; confidential source, Nov. 9, 2007; confidential source, Mar. 22, 2007; correspondence with Paul Burrell, Aug. 24, 2007; Howard Lyman, Mar. 24, 2008; Elliott Zinger and Patrick Walsh, Oct. 9, 2007, and correspondence with Elliott Zinger, June 22, 2009; confidential source, Oct. 1, 2008; Bill Zwecker, Oct. 11, 2007; confidential source, Nov. 26, 2007; Tim Jones, Apr. 5, 2007.
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RECORDS: Transcript, interview of Oprah Winfrey by Diane Sawyer, 20/20, ABC, Oct. 25, 1998; King World Productions, Inc., General Statement of Beneficial Ownership (SEC Schedule SC 13D), filed Oct. 27, 1997; King World Productions, Inc., General Statement of Beneficial Ownership (SEC Schedule SC 13G), filed Oct. 13, 1998; transcript, Oprah Winfrey with Phil McGraw, Dr. Phil, aired Feb. 11, 2008; documents in the case of Dr. Mehmet Oz et al., v. FWM Labratories, Inc., et al., case no. 1:09-CV-07297-DAB, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York.
BOOKS: Oprah Winfrey, Journey to Beloved (Hyperion, 1998); Natalie Zemon Davis, Slaves on Screen (Harvard University Press, 2000); Rhonda Byrne, The Secret (Atria Books/Beyond Words, 2006); Live Your Best Life: A Treasury of Wisdom, Wit, Advice, Interviews and Inspiration from O, The Oprah Magazine (Oxmoor House, 2005); O’s Guide to Life: The Best of O, The Oprah Magazine (Oxmoor House, 2007); O’s Big Book of Happiness: The Best of O, The Oprah Magazine (Oxmoor House, 2008).
ARTICLES: “Winfrey’s Company Buys Rights to ‘Beloved,’ ‘Boy,’ ” Variety, Jan. 12, 1988; Jonathan Van Meter, “Oprah’s Moment,” Vogue, Oct. 1998; Gretchen Reynolds, “A Year to Remember: Oprah Grows Up,” TV Guide, Jan. 7, 1995; “Dumbing Up,” Economist, Oct. 17, 1998; Tom Shales, “ ‘David and Lisa’ and a Little Too Much Oprah,” Washington Post, Oct. 31, 1989; Roger Ebert, “Oprah Meets Her Match,” Chicago Sun-Times, Oct. 11, 1998; Ron Stodghill, “Daring to Go There,” Time, Oct. 5, 1998; Laura B. Randolph, “Oprah and Danny Sizzle in Their First Love Scene in the Powerful Film ‘Beloved,’ ” Ebony, Nov. 1998; Honie Stevens, “From Rags to Riches,” Saga, May 2002; Clarence Page, “Taking Off Blinders About Slavery,” Chicago Tribune, Oct. 21, 1998; Lorrie Lynch, “Oprah’s New Mission,” USA Weekend, Oct. 9–11, 1998; John Millar, “Oprah Winfrey and Thandie Newton,” OK!, Mar. 12, 1999; Janet Maslin, “No Peace from a Brutal Legacy,” New York Times, Oct. 16, 1998; Stanley Kauffmann, “Of Human Bondages,” New Republic, Nov. 16, 1998; Richard Alleva, “Beloved,” Commonweal, Nov. 20, 1998; Roger Ebert, “Grand Oprah,” Chicago Sun-Times, Oct. 16, 1998; Richard Corliss, “Bewitching Beloved,” Time, Oct. 5, 1998; Mary A. Mitchell, “Nothing Entertaining About Films on Slavery,” Chicago Sun-Times, Oct. 18, 1998; Anita Creamer, “Beautiful Pictures Reveal Ugly Truth,” Sacramento Bee, Oct. 12, 1998; Marisa Meltzer, “The Fat Wars,” www.thedailybeast.com, May 19, 2009; Marilyn Gardner, “Vogue ’s Oprah Sends Mixed Message,” Christian Science Monitor, Oct. 18, 1998; Lloyd Grove, “Vogue Editor Rouses the Fat and the Furious,” New York Daily News, Sept. 19, 2005; Cynthia Grenier, “Vogue Scores in Big Fashion Getting First Lady for Cover,” Washington Times, Dec. 12, 1998; “Oscar Fashions/More Maria Shriver,” www.oprah.com, Mar. 5, 1999; “Oprah Winfrey and Beloved,” www.news.bbc.co.uk, Mar. 5, 1999; Jeannie Williams, “Cover Girl Oprah a Model of Makeover,” USA Today, Sept. 18, 1998; Veronica Chambers and Allison Samuels, “The Women of ‘Beloved,’ ” Newsweek, Oct. 19, 1998; Jill Vejnuska, “It’s Oprah’s World,” Palm Beach Post, Oct. 16, 1998; Steve Holsey, “Oprah Winfrey, Talk Show Queen, Has Complex Movie She Believes In,” Michigan Chronicle, Oct. 14, 1998; Mary McNamara, “O to a Higher Power,” Los Angeles Times, Dec. 11, 2005; Sharon Waxman, “Beloved Gets the Cold Shoulder,” Montreal Gazette, Nov. 12, 1998; “Autumn Flops,” Economist, Nov. 21, 1998; Martyn Palmer, “Unloved but Unbowed,” London Times, Feb. 25, 1999; John Millar, “Grand Oprah,” Sunday Express, Feb. 21, 1999; Liz Smith, “Jackie Mason on Mel,” New York Post, Aug. 3, 2006; “Oprah Winfrey: For a Beloved TV Icon, a Year of Grit, Glamour—and Jeers,” People Weekly, Dec. 28, 1998; Cindy Pearlman, “Poet Angelou Has Few Kind Words for Clinton,” Chicago Sun-Times, Dec. 3, 1998; Liz Smith, “Still an Open Fan of Andre’s,” New York Post, June 10, 1999; Scott A. Resnick, “Whoopi Goldberg Fields Questions, Holds Back Little,” Harvard Crimson, Nov. 10, 1998; “It’s War,” National Enquirer, Dec. 31, 1998; Maya Jaggi, “The Power of One,” Guardian Weekend, Feb. 11, 1999; Lynette Clemetson, “It’s Constant Work,” Newsweek, Oct. 8, 2001; Phil Rosenthal, “Soul Second,” Chicago Sun-Times, June 28, 2000; Jill Smolowe and Sonja Steptoe, “O on the Go,” People Weekly, July 16, 2001; Richard Huff, “Happy Days Here Again for Top-Rated ‘Oprah,’ ” New York Daily News, Oct. 1, 1998; Robert Feder, “Why Oprah Keeps Faith with Her Faithful Followers,” Chicago Sun-Times, Sept. 16, 1997; Robert Feder, “Springer Isn’t Stung by Winfrey’s Remarks,” Chicago Sun-Times, Feb. 10, 1999; “Rachael Ray?” www.tmz.com, Jan. 24, 2007; “Business and Finance,” Wall Street Journal, Sept. 16, 1998; Lisa de Moraes, “In CBS Deal, Oprah Gets a Wheel Fortune: $100 Million,” Washington Post, Apr. 2, 1999; Tim Jones, “In a Blink, CBS Changes Its Make-Up,” Chicago Tribune, Apr. 2, 1999; Forbes 400 list 1999, www.Forbes.com; Amy Wellborn, “The Feel-Good Spirituality of Oprah,” Our Sunday Visitor, Jan. 13, 2002; Lyn Garrett, “Oprah Gets Spiritual,” Publishers Weekly, Sept. 14, 1998; Bob Longino, “Oprah Exhorting Fans to ‘Change Your Life,’ ” Atlanta Constitution, Sept. 10, 1998; Christopher John Farley, “Queen of All Media,” Time, Oct. 5, 1998; Richard Roeper, “ ‘Deepak Oprah’s’ Inner Journey Is an Ego Trip,” Chicago Sun-Times, Oct. 12, 1998; Libby Copeland, “Our Lady of Perpetual Help,” Washington Post, June 26, 2000; Skip Hollandsworth, “Phillip McGraw,” Texas Monthly, Sept. 1999; Cheryl Lavine, “Dr. Tell It Like It Is,” Chicago Tribune, June 12, 2001; “Oprah Winfrey Reinvents Her Show,” Atlanta Daily World, Sept. 13, 1998; Ann Oldenburg, “Oprah: ‘These Are the Glory Days for Me,’ ” USA Today, Oct. 8, 1998; Shu Shin Lu, “Oprah Fan’s Tragedy,” Chicago Sun-Times, Dec. 24, 1999; Steve Johnson, “Oh, No, Oprah! Enough!” Chicago Tribune, Nov. 23, 1998; Weston Kosova and Pat Wingert, “Live Your Best Life Ever,” Newsweek, June 8, 2009; Lucy Howard et al., “The Buzz,” Newsweek, Feb. 22, 1999; Hal Boedeker, “Too Much Oprah, Too Much Vanity,” Orlando Sentinel, Sept. 18, 1998; Wiley A. Hall III, “Urban Rhythms: The Marches,” Afro-American Red Star, Oct. 27, 2000; Jeff MacGregor, “Inner Peace, Empowerment, and Host Worship,” New York Times, Oct. 25, 1998; “The Gospel According to Oprah,” Vantage Point, July 1998; Phil Rosenthal, “What a ‘Man,’ ” Chicago Sun-Times, June 16, 1999; Jerry Adler, “ ‘The Secret’: Does Self-Help Book Really Help?” Newsweek, Mar. 5, 2007; transcript, Larry King Live, May 1, 2007, www.transcripts.cnn.com; Steve Rabey, “Oprah’s ‘Gospel,’ ” Christian Examiner, May 2008; Marco R. della Cava, “Secret History of ‘The Secret,’ ” USA Today, Mar. 28, 2007; Peter Birkenhead, “Oprah’s Ugly Secret,” www.Salon.com, Mar. 5, 2007; transcript, Real Time with Bill Maher, Mar. 9, 2007, www.safesearching.com; Tim Watkin, “Self-Help’s Slimy ‘Secret,’ ” Washington Post, Apr. 8, 2007; “Letters to Oprah,” www.oprah.com, Mar. 26, 2007; Lynn Clemetson, “Oprah on Oprah,” Newsweek, Jan. 8, 2008; Robert Feder, “Oprah Set to Launch Magazine Next Year,” Chicago Sun-Times, July 9, 1999; Robert Feder, “Give Her an O—Oprah Names
New Magazine,” Chicago Sun-Times, Jan. 13, 2000; Keith Kelly, “Oprah Magazine Goes with O,” New York Post, Jan. 13, 2000; Lillian Ross, “Oprah’s Understudy,” New Yorker, Apr. 24 and May 1, 2000; April Peterson, “Combining Mass and Class: The Story of O, The Oprah Magazine,” Journal of Magazine and New Media Research, Fall 2003; Marina Benjamin, “O is for Oprah and Over-the-Top,” Evening Standard, Apr. 26, 2000; “Oprah Talks to Nelson Mandela,” O, The Oprah Magazine, Apr. 2001; Carina Chocano, “Look Out O: Twins Go Glossy,” Chicago Sun-Times, Apr. 11, 2001; “Top Ten Articles in Oprah’s New Magazine,” Late Show with David Letterman, Apr. 10, 2000, www.cbs.com/latenight/lateshow.
TV/DVDS: Beloved, 1998 (DVD); “Oprah Winfrey: Heart of the Matter,” A&E Biography special, aired Jan. 16, 2000; The Oprah Winfrey Show 20th Anniversary Collection (DVD set); “What Happened to the Mom Who Shopped Her Family Broke?” The Oprah Winfrey Show, aired Jan. 18, 2008.
INTERVIEWS: Confidential source, Nov. 26, 2007; Susan Karns, July 29, 2009; Peter Colasante, Dec. 17, 2007; Maureen Taylor, Dec. 17, 2007; Vernon Winfrey, Apr. 24, 2008; Nan Talese, Mar. 23, 2007; Tim Jones, Apr. 5, 2007; correspondence with Alex Kuczynski, Apr. 13, 2008.
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RECORDS: “Oprah’s Angel Network Fact Sheet,” The Oprah Winfrey Show press release, Sept. 1999; IRS forms 990 for Oprah’s Angel Network, 2002–2007, EIN 36-4231488; IRS forms 990 for Angel Network Support Foundation, 2002–2004, EIN 74-2962189; transcript, “Oprah” segment, 60 Minutes, CBS, Dec. 14, 1986; transcript, Oprah Winfrey speech at Miss Porter’s School, June 12, 1994; Illinois Secretary of State Corporation File Detail Report for The Oprah Winfrey Foundation, File no. 57496614; IRS forms 990-PF for The Oprah Winfrey Foundation, 2001–2007, and For A Better Life Foundation, 1998–2000, EIN 36-3976230; “Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls—South Africa Celebrates Its Official Opening,” TOWLAG press release, Jan. 2, 2007; IRS forms 990-PF for The Oprah Winfrey Operating Foundation, 2002–2005, and The Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy Foundation, 2006, 2007, EIN 74-3048315; documents in the case of Lerato Nomvuyo Mzamane v. Oprah Winfrey et al., case no. 2:08-CV-4884 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
BOOKS: Robert Waldron, Oprah! (St. Martin’s Press, 1987); George Mair, Oprah Winfrey: The Real Story (Birch Lane Press, 1994); Peter Frumkin, Strategic Giving: The Art and Science of Philanthropy (University of Chicago Press, 2006); Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Finding Oprah’s Roots (Crown Publishers, 2007).
ARTICLES: Andrew Gumbel, “Oprah Becomes First Black Woman to Join Billionaire’s Club,” Los Angeles Times, Mar. 1, 2003; “Oprah Comes Home,” Kosciusko Star-Herald, Nov. 15, 1998; “Oprah Winfrey Reveals the Real Reason Why She Stayed on TV,” Jet, Nov. 24, 1997; “FAMU Habitat for Humanity Chapter Selected to Build Oprah House,” Tennessee Tribune, Apr. 16, 1998; Shawn Reeves, “The House That Oprah Built,” Habitat World, Oct./Nov. 1999; “Habitat Plans Six Houses in ’98,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Jan. 22, 1998; Jennifer Wulff and Mike Lipton, “These Are My Dream Girls,” People Weekly, Jan. 15, 2007; “Building Oprah Katrina Homes,” www.oprah.com; Mary Perez, “With Little Fanfare, Oprah’s Angel Network Is Quietly Helping Coast People and Communities Recover,” Biloxi-Gulfport Sun-Herald; Steve Johnson, “Oh, No, Oprah! Enough,” Chicago Tribune, Nov. 23, 1998; Alex Ben Block, “Oprah on the Record,” TelevisionWeek , Apr. 19, 2004; “How Big Sister Oprah Opened Her Arms and Her Heart to Save 24 Ghetto Kids,” Star, Sept. 5, 1989; Bill Brashler, “Next on Oprah…,” Ladies’ Home Journal , Aug. 1991; Joan Barthel, “Here Comes Oprah,” Ms., Aug. 1986; “Bill Cosby Leads the Millionaire Entertainers,” San Francisco Chronicle, Sept. 7, 1987; Marilynn Marchione, “Coast-to-Coast: U.S. Reaches Out,” Chicago Sun-Times, May 25, 1986; Charles Krauthammer, “Celebrities in Politics,” Time, Apr. 21, 1986; Timothy McDarragh, “Talk’s Not Cheap,” New York Post, Jan. 1, 1987; Irv Kupcinet, “Kup on Sunday,” Chicago Sun-Times, Mar. 8, 1987; “$25,000 Kiss,” Nashville Banner, Aug. 4, 1987; Robert Feder, “Oprah Buys Studio on West Side,” Chicago Sun-Times, Sept. 17, 1988; “Oprah, Revlon Give School $100,000,” New York Amsterdam News, Feb. 4, 1989; “Generous Oprah,” New York Daily News, Dec. 27, 1988; “Lunch on Oprah in South African Town,” Boston Herald, July 23, 1988; Brian Williams and David Barritt, “Oprah’s Mission of Mercy,” National Enquirer, Apr. 3, 1990; Brian Lowry, “NCCJ Humanitarian Award Presented to Oprah Winfrey,” Variety, Oct. 24, 1988; “Oprah Gives Donation,” Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, Apr. 30, 1988; “Rich Get Richer,” Chicago Tribune, Sept. 17, 1989; “Oprah Winfrey Establishes Morehouse College Fund,” Atlanta Daily World, May 25, 1989; “Oprah Makes Her Second $5 Mil Donation to Morehouse College,” Chicago Defender, Feb. 26, 2004; Lisbeth Levine, “Show Supports Shelter,” Chicago Sun-Times, Aug. 23, 1989; “Check Oprah—She Saves the Day,” Chicago Sun-Times, Mar. 28, 1989; Irv Kupcinet, “Kup’s Column,” Chicago Sun-Times, June 22, 1989; “Star Watch,” USA Today, Sept. 26, 1989; “Oprah Winfrey Helps,” Atlanta Daily World, Mar. 12, 1989; “Cosby Tops List of Money-Makers,” Los Angeles Times, Sept. 17, 1990; “Oprah, Church Make Way for Dakota Shelter,” Minneapolis StarTribune, Aug. 16, 1990; Mary Cameron Frey, “Chicago Opens Its Heart for Art Against AIDS,” Chicago Sun-Times, Apr. 22, 1990; “…And Winfrey Deserves Salute,” Chicago Sun-Times, Oct. 2, 1990; Irv Kupcinet, “Kup’s Column,” Chicago Sun-Times, Jan. 25, 1990; Susan Heller Anderson, “Chronicle,” New York Times, Jan. 26, 1990; “Standing Room Only,” Atlanta Daily World, May 11, 1990; “Oprah Flying Mandela Kin to South Africa,” Chicago Sun-Times, Feb. 2, 1990; Robert Feder, “Bob Hope Leads Stars in Salute to Winfrey,” Chicago Sun-Times, Sept. 12, 1990; “The Dish!” Globe, Jan. 21, 2003; Edward R. Silverman, “Big Bucks on the Block,” Newsday, Sept. 16, 1991; Eric Siegel, “Talk Show Host Winfrey Gives Money for Books,” Baltimore Sun, Sept. 18, 1991; Edward R. Silverman, “Big Bucks,” Newsday, Sept. 14, 1992; “Oprah Gives $50,000 to Fight Abuse,” Chicago Sun-Times, Jan. 15, 1992; “People,” Orange County Sentinel, Aug. 1, 1992; Irv Kupcinet, “Kup’s Column,” Chicago Sun-Times, Jan. 16, 1992; David E. Kalish, “Oprah Tops Forbes’ List of Entertainers,” San Francisco Chronicle, Sept. 13, 1993; Ginny Holbert, “Winfrey Thinks Show Can Help,” Chicago Sun-Times, Nov. 23, 1993; M. W. Newman, “Restoration Brings Out Best in Holy Family,” Chicago Sun-Times, July 12, 1993; Mary Cameron Frey, “Oprah Looks Like a Million to West Side School,” Chicago Sun-Times, Oct. 27, 1993; Bill Zwecker, “The Top Earners,” Chicago Sun-Times, Sept. 12, 1994; “Oprah Winfrey Donates Prize Money to School,” New York Amsterdam News, Feb. 12, 1994; “Rack Race,” People Weekly, July 4, 1994; Luchina Fisher et al., “In Full Stride,” People Weekly, Sept. 12, 1994; “ ‘Taking on Welfare’—Next on Oprah,” Chicago Tribune, Sept. 16, 1994; Gary Wisby, “Oprah Picks Up the Tab,” Chicago Sun-Times, Sept. 14, 1994; Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, “The Importance of Being Oprah,” New York Times Magazine, June 11, 1989; Pat Gowens, “A Woman’s Response to the ‘Oprah Effect,’ ” www.blackagendareport.com, Nov. 1, 2006; Dana Kennedy, “Oprah Act Two,” Entertainment Weekly, Sept. 9, 1994; Maudlyne Ihejirika, “7 Star in Oprah’s Pilot,” Chicago Sun-Times, Sept. 15, 1995; Allyson C. Ward, “Oprah, Hull House Help 100 Needy Families with Housing,” Chicago Defender, Sept. 14, 1994; Christopher John Farley, “Oprah Springs Eternal,” Time, Aug. 30, 1993; Melissa Key, “Secret Heartache Behind Oprah’s $6M Giveaway,” Star, Sept. 17, 1994; Jamie Foster Brown, “Everything Negroes Ever Wanted to Ask Oprah,” Sister 2 Sister, Nov. 1997; Louise Kiernan, “Oprah’s Poverty Program Stalls,” Chicago Tribune, Aug. 27, 1996; Clarence Page, “Oprah Asking the Right Questions,” Chicago Tribune, Sept. 4, 1996; Richard Thomas, “Queen of the Dream,” Guardian, May 10, 1997; “Oprah Winfrey and Beau Stedman Graham to Teach Class at Northwestern University,” Jet, June 7, 1999; Cliff Edwards, “Professor Oprah to Teach Leadership at N’western,” Commercial Appeal, May 20, 1999; “Oprah on Oprah,” Newsweek, Jan. 8, 1999; Bill Hoffman, “On Guard! Here Comes Oprah,” New York Post, Nov. 15, 2000; Mike Thomas, “Class Dismis
sed,” Chicago Sun-Times, Jan. 3, 2001; Michael Sneed, “Sneed,” Chicago Sun-Times, Nov. 12, 1999; Forbes 400 list 1998, 1999, 2000, and 2002, www.Forbes.com; “O, No! Oprah Talks of Retiring,” New York Post, Mar. 12, 2002; “World’s Richest People” list 2003 and 2004, www.Forbes.com; “Billionaires” list, 2006 and 2007, www.Forbes.com; “Oprah, Master P and Puff Daddy Among Forbes’ List of 40 Highest Paid Entertainers,” Jet, Sept. 28, 1998; “Oprah and Michael Jordan Among Forbes’ List of Top 50 Highest Paid Performers,” Jet, Mar. 22, 1999; “Who Are the Highest-Paid Black Celebrities,” Jet, Mar. 27, 2000; “100 Top Celebrities” list, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007, www.Forbes.com; “Mandela’s Passion for Education,” Mercury, July 15, 2008; “Newsmakers,” Houston Chronicle, Nov. 5, 2000; Belinda Robinson, “Oprah’s African Dream Realized,” London Voice, Dec. 7, 2006; Oprah Winfrey, “O Happy,” O, The Oprah Magazine, Apr. 2003; Darren Scheuttler, “Crowding Mars Mandela Holiday Party,” Chicago Tribune, Dec. 23, 2002; P. J. Bednarski, “All About Oprah Inc.,” Broadcasting and Cable, June 24, 2005; Oprah Winfrey, “What I Know for Sure,” O, The Oprah Magazine, Dec. 2006; Patricia Edmonds, “This Time I Won’t Fail,” USA Weekend, Dec. 17, 2006; Pamela Gien, “Building the Dream,” O, The Oprah Magazine, Jan. 2007; Rosalind Rossi, “Oprah Visits Local Charter School to Get Tips for Her South African,” Chicago Sun-Times, Nov. 15, 2003; transcript, Anderson Cooper 360 Degrees, www.cnn.transcripts.com, Jan. 8, 2007; Debby Knox, “The Christel Touch,” www.wishtv.com, Feb. 12, 2007; “Talk Show Host Reinvigorates Attention on City’s Failing Schools,” www.thewbalchannel.com, Apr. 12, 2006; Dan Rodricks, “Listen Up, Oprah: There Are Other Ways to Help City Kids,” Baltimore Sun, Apr. 13, 2006; Lynn Anderson, “Baltimore Turns the Other Cheek for Oprah,” Baltimore Sun, Apr. 12, 2006; Daphne Merkin, “Soap Oprah,” Radar, Feb. 2008; Allison Samuels, “Oprah Winfrey’s Lavish South African School,” Newsweek, Jan. 8, 2007; “Oprah Reveals She Is a Descendant of Zulus,” Jet, July 4, 2005; “One on One with Oprah,” www.etonline.com, Jan. 3, 2007; “Oprah Opens Her Dream School for Poor South African Students,” Yahoo News (AFP), Jan. 2, 2007; Rebecca Traister, “What Oprah Can’t Forget,” www.Salon.com, Jan. 13, 2007; Janet Silvera, “Mixed Feelings for New ‘Oprah’ School,” Jamaica Gleaner, May 29, 2007; “Oprah Admits Having Nearly Given Up South African School Project,” Yahoo News (AFP), Jan. 3, 2007; Suzanne Slesin, “Live and Learn,” O at Home, Summer 2007; “KZN Girls Head for Oprah’s School,” Durban Daily News, Nov. 20, 2006; Chrisena Coleman, “Oprah’s Schooled,” New York Daily News, Jan. 2, 2007; “Statement from Oprah Winfrey,” Boston Globe, Jan. 20, 2007; “Oprah: Their Story Is My Story,” www.ABCNews.go.com, Jan. 2, 2007; “Oprah Winfrey Press Conference,” www.oprah.com, Nov. 5, 2007; “Transcript of Oprah Winfrey’s Commencement Address,” Stanford Report, June 15, 2008; Lumka Oliphant, “Stars at Oprah’s S. A. Bash,” Pretoria News, Dec. 23, 2006; Ray Richmond, “Gift List for Challenged Media Figures,” www.hollywoodreporter.com, Dec. 19, 2006; Beverly Keel, “Oprah’s School for Girls in Africa Impresses Dad,” Tennessean, Jan. 12, 2007; “Oprah Winfrey Talks About ‘Her Girls,’ ” www.ABC7Chicago.com, Feb. 26, 2007; Jodi Poirier, “Building a Dream,” New York Amsterdam News, Mar. 1–7, 2007; Ruben Navarette, “The Truth According to Oprah,” San Diego Union-Tribune, Jan. 14, 2007; Maulina Karenga, “Oprah in Africa,” Los Angeles Sentinel, Jan. 17, 2007; Gill Guilford and Bothos Molosanka, “Accused Pleads Not Guilty in Oprah Case,” Johannesburg Star, July 29, 2008; Solly Maphumulo, “Oprah Sex Scandal,” Johannesburg Star, Mar. 31, 2009; Caille Millner, “Oprah’s Opportunity,” San Francisco Chronicle, Nov. 12, 2007; transcript, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, www.msnbc.msn.com, Nov. 5, 2007; Eugene Robinson, “Oprah the Avenger,” Washington Post, Nov. 6, 2007; Canaan Mdletshe, “Girl Quits Winfrey Academy,” Sowetan, Sept. 27, 2007; Andrew Leonard, “Live on Oprah: Microfinance!” www.Salon.com, Dec. 5, 2006.