The XX Factor : Oprah Winfrey

Whitney Houston: Is She Every Woman?

Nina Shen Rastogi — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:25:00 GMT

For those of us who missed yesterday's epic Whitney Houston-Oprah Winfrey interview, Jezebel has put together a priceless highlight reel . We learn lots of sordid things about Houston's drug habits—watch her educate Winfrey on the finer points of freebasing...(read more)

Women More Likely to Follow Men on Twitter

Jessica Grose — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:29:00 GMT

In the wider world, Oprah Winfrey is vastly more influential than Ashton Kutcher. But Ashton trumps Oprah in the male-dominated Twitter-verse, where men have 15 percent more followers than women do. New research from Harvard Business School has shown...(read more)

@Oprah

Noreen Malone — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:30:00 GMT

Oprah started twittering this morning, in what might become the ultimate realization of the personal branding medium. Just one hour after her first tweet ("HI TWITTERS . THANK YOU FOR A WARM WELCOME. FEELING REALLY 21st CENTURY ) she's approaching 100,000...(read more)

O vs. O

Dana Stevens — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 14:37:00 GMT

Waiting for a bus near a newsstand this week, I became transfixed by the cover of the April issue of O magazine , in which, for the first time in the publication’s nine-year history, its namesake/publisher/doyenne shares cover space with someone else:...(read more)

The Lipstick Level, Continued: Even Oprah Learns To Share Her Toys

Dayo Olopade — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 23:04:00 GMT

With none other than Michelle Obama ! After nine years of stubbornly holding off on appearances with well, anything that is not a saleable accessory (not even so much as a cabana boy), Oprah caves on the cover of her magazine, O . The dish: Winfrey also...(read more)

Fashion Faux Pas

Marjorie Valbrun — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 08:55:00 GMT

Julia , I too found some of the renderings of Michelle Obama questionable and also troubling because of their subtle use of stereotypical imagery. Christian Lacroix's Michelle is a sneering, mean-looking lady , much like the "angry black woman" the Obama...(read more)

Oprah and Linda

Emily Bazelon — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 15:00:00 GMT

Oprah Winfrey declares victory for the cause: "Now look at this campaign: The two front-runners are a black man and a woman," she said at a California rally she headlined with Michelle Obama, Maria Shriver, and Caroline Kennedy. "What that says to me...(read more)