Oprah Winfrey adds another year

Powerful woman, Oprah Winfrey is a year older today. Oprah Winfrey is an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist. She is best known for her talk show The Oprah Winfrey Show, which was the highest-rated television program of its kind in history and was nationally syndicated from 1986 to 2011 in Chicago, Illinois.

Dubbed the “Queen of All Media”she is the richest African-American and North America’s first multi-billionaire black person and has been ranked the greatest black philanthropist in American history.

Several assessments rank her as the most influential woman in the world.In 2013, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama and honorary doctorate degrees from Duke and Harvard.