Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Winfrey is considered one of the most powerful women of our time since Madam C.J.Walker. She has replaced the so called glass ceiling with concrete opportunity. She was born in Kosciusko, Mississippi. She enrolled at Tennessee State University to study speech and performing arts. At the age of 19, she landed her first broadcasting job as a reporter for radio station WVOL in Nashville, TN. In 1971 she was named Miss Black Nashville AND Miss Black Tennessee. She switched majors her sophomore year to media and becomes the first African-American anchor at WTVF-TV in Nashville.