Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy School for Girls

Data Evolution Corporation (DEC), a trend-setter in mobile technology, recently announced that it has made a donation of a clucth of its decTOP computers to the Seven Fountains Primary School in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

Opened in 3/2007 with a student body of one thousand boys and girls, Seven Fountains exists because of cooporation between Oprah Winfrey's Angel... Read More

Joan Countryman has recently returned from the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy For Girls in South Africa. Ms. Countryman is a Quaker and former headmistress of Providence's Lincoln School.

During the opening in January Countryman realized the person speaking after her was none other than Nelson Mandela, Nobel Peace Prize winner and former President of South Africa.

"The... Read More

THIS WAS ORIGINALLY POSTED IN THE NEW REPUBLIC- 5/21/07 BY SACHA ZIMMERMAN

It may seem strange that I am applying for admission to the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa for the fall semester. It's true; I am not South African. But, as the great Dr. Maya Angelou once said, "Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it."... Read More

Oprah Winfrey told Howard University's class of 2007 in a highly anticipated Commencement address: "I was told before I came, ""You're going to feel the love at Howard University,"" I'm feeling it today,"

An openly joyful Oprah received an Honorary Doctor of Humanities degree at the May 12 Ceremony. "Find out what gives you juice; nobody can tell you what that is," she told... Read More