Oprah Winfrey is returning to the big screen!
27.07.2020 - 23:27 / nypost.com
multi-year content agreement that Winfrey signed with the streaming service in 2018. Other projects in the works under the deal include a documentary series about the stigma surrounding mental health.
Winfrey is credited as co-creator on that project along with Prince Harry. She also appeared in Apple’s docuseries “Visible: Out on Television,” which chronicles the impact of the LGBT movement on television.
.Oprah Winfrey is returning to the big screen!
The first cast members of HBO’s “Between The World And Me” adaptation have been announced.
HBO is clearly working hard to get the upcoming adaptation of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ book “Between the World and Me” on TV screens this year. When it was announced that the network was working on an adaptation of the book, people were already excited enough to see this story told at a time when American politics and social discourse is dominated by the death of George Floyd and the prevalence of Black Lives Matter protests.
Also Read: HBO to Adapt Ta-Nehisi Coates' 'Between the World and Me' as a TV Special“Between the World and Me” is currently in production under COVID-19 guidelines. The special is expected to debut this fall on HBO and will also be available to stream on WarnerMedia-owned streaming service HBO Max.HBO’s “Between the World and Me” is directed by Kamilah Forbes, who directed the Apollo’s original staging.
Joe Otterson TV ReporterHBO has set an all-star lineup of featured performers in the adaptation of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “Between the World and Me.”The HBO version’s cast will include Angela Bassett, Oprah Winfrey, “Black Lives Matter” founder Alicia Garza, Joe Morton, Phylicia Rashad, The Roots’ Tariq “Black Thought” Trotter, Courtney B. Vance, Pauletta Washington, and Susan Kelechi Watson.
Gayle King is getting candid about a major career opportunity she passed on for the sake of her kids. The co-host is Drew Barrymore's first guest on the debut episode of her digital series, released on Thursday.King, 65, is mother to daughter Kirby and son William from her previous marriage to William Bumpus.
Breonna Taylor and amplify her story and the voices of Black females and femmes that are victims of police brutality, Oprah Winfrey erected 26 billboards across Louisville, Kentucky.
Meghan Markle, Oprah Winfrey, Michelle Obama and more inspiring women across the globe are teaming up to encourage fans to vote in the upcoming 2020 election.With fewer than 100 days to go until Election Day, recently asked «100 influential women» why they are voting as a way to shine a light on the importance of casting a ballot this fall.“I know what it's like to have a voice, and also what it's like to feel voiceless," the Duchess of Sussex shared. «I also know that so many men and women have
Oprah Winfrey has stepped up her campaign calling for justice for Breonna Taylor.
The death of Breonna Taylor has become a lightning rod for activism and change. Oprah Winfrey, among many other celebrities, is continuously fighting for justice in the case of Taylor, who was murdered after police mistakenly went to her home and shot her after her boyfriend fired at them.
First, Oprah Winfrey put Breonna Taylor on the cover of O, The Oprah Magazine. Now the media mogul is spreading her message with billboards demanding justice for the Kentucky woman shot to death during a police raid.
Oprah Winfrey has set up 26 billboards in and around Louisville, Kentucky, demanding swift justice for Breonna Taylor's death. Each billboard features the same image of Taylor that Winfrey used on the front of the September issue of O, The Oprah Magazine, marking the first time Winfrey herself did not appeare on the publication's cover.
@Oprah for amplifying our fight for JUSTICE, putting Bre's face on 26 billboards across Louisville –one for each year of her life.
O magazine cover along with a quote from Winfrey that reads, “If you turn a blind eye to racism, you become an accomplice to it.” The billboards also include a call to action: "Demand that the police involved in killing Breonna Taylor be arrested and charged.
Oprah Winfrey is putting her money where her mouth is.
Oprah Winfrey discussed the advantages White Americans have over non-White communities in terms of reaching success on her new Apple TV+ series.
If not for the coronavirus, Oprah Winfrey says, she would be out in the streets and marching with the Black Lives Matter protesters.
LOS ANGELES — Oprah Winfrey is returning to her talk show format with a new series on Apple TV+, whose first episodes will focus on racism in the United States, Apple Inc and Winfrey announced on Monday.