Monday morning on The Tennessee Star Report, host Leahy welcomed all-star panelists Carol Swain and Crom Carmichael in studio to discuss Oprah Winfrey’s TSU commencement speech on Saturday.
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Oprah Winfrey Laments ‘Death of Civility,’ Lauds ‘Two Justins’ in Woke TSU Commencement Speech
Billionaire media mogul Oprah Winfrey returned to her alma mater Saturday to deliver fiery, racially-charged commencement remarks to the graduating class of 2023.
Winfrey, who skyrocketed to fame and fortune with the success of her 90s-area television hit, The Oprah Winfrey Show, lamented to the audience that “you are the generation that is forced to depend on body cams to obtain justice;” “books are being banned, and history is being rewritten;” and that “children are being gunned down by military-grade assault rifles.”
Read MoreGranite State Union Says No to Biden Re-Election Bid ‘At This Time’
In breaking with the Big Labor mothership, one of New Hampshire’s largest employee unions has announced it will not endorse President Joe Biden’s re-election campaign — at least not now.
Instead State Employees Association/Service Employees International Union (SEA/SEIU) 1984 says it wants to see competition for the Democratic Party’s nomination.
Read MoreOprah Winfrey, Mississippi U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson to Headline Tennessee State University’s Spring Commencement Ceremonies
Tennessee State University (TSU) recently announced that talk show host Oprah Winfrey and Mississippi Congressman Bennie Thompson (D-MS-02) will headline the university’s spring commencement ceremonies next month.
Read MoreKemp Opens Probe Into Democratic Party for Alleged Attempt to Hack Voting System
by Chris White Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp, a Republican running for governor, is opening an investigation into the state’s Democratic Party for allegedly attempting to hack the state’s voter registration system. Kemp’s office made the announcement in a Sunday morning news release but did not provide any…
Read MoreGeorgia Democrat Stacey Abrams Thinks She Has Secret Weapon in Tied Governor’s Race: Oprah
by Evie Fordham Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams is pulling out all the stops, including two town halls with Oprah Winfrey, after a Tuesday poll showed she is in a “statistical dead heat” with Republican Brian Kemp. The Tuesday FOX 5 poll shows Abrams at 48.1 percent and Kemp…
Read MoreGeorgia Democrat Stacey Abrams Thinks She Has Secret Weapon in Tied Governor’s Race: Oprah
by Evie Fordham Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams is pulling out all the stops, including two town halls with Oprah Winfrey, after a Tuesday poll showed she is in a “statistical dead heat” with Republican Brian Kemp. The Tuesday FOX 5 poll shows Abrams at 48.1 percent and Kemp…
Read MoreJason Reynolds Commentary: U2 Turns Nashville Concert Into Political Rally
There is no question U2 is one of the most talented bands in our time. They also have done some great work in terms of social justice. Their work has included relief efforts for HIV-positive people in Africa. (RED) was created by Bono and Bobby Shriver in 2006 to fight…
Read MoreOprah Winfrey Rules Out 2020 Presidential Run
The excitement of a run for the White House by media mogul Oprah Winfrey has come to an anticlimactic end. Winfrey tells InStyle magazine that running for president is not in her DNA. “It’s not something that interests me,” she said in an interview published Thursday. “I met with someone…
Read MoreTrump Not Afraid of Possible Bid by Oprah, White House Says
The White House had a message Monday for Oprah Winfrey: Bring it on. Responding to a clamor on the left for Ms. Winfrey to run for president in 2020 after her passionate speech at the Golden Globes, White House deputy press secretary Hogan Gidley said President Trump isn’t concerned about…
Read MoreWhat the NFL Can Learn from Oprah’s Obama Endorsement
No one saw it coming. Not TV experts. Not the sponsors. Not the station owners. And no one who worked for one of America’s richest women saw it coming, either. One day, Oprah Winfrey woke up, and her nationally syndicated show was plummeting in the ratings. Her audience had turned…
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