Early Oprah | Baltimore TV Years (1978-1981) 

Lol, that's when I QUIT watching! Early 90s; the day she held up a beautiful porcelain tea cup and saucer telling the audience that they should treat themselves to small beauties like this in their everyday life. It was only $100! I was sitting there in a mobile home with two little kids I was raising alone. On food stamps, driving a beater, working my ass off cutting cedar logs for a living or working at a local sawmill in exchange for $5 an hour and the sawyer's wife watching my kids during work hours. I thought, this b**** has no idea what the rest of us are going through! That was the last time I ever watched Oprah Winfrey intentionally. Few years after that she went after the beef farming industry - that pissed me off & millions of others. Then she started her own religion and went on tour as a spiritual leader! I remember when this happened and it was outrageous to me - what an ego LOL! Oprah caught a lot of flak about it and since the internet arrived, I've tried to find information on that incident and it is absolutely not there; she's erased it. The appearance of her own magazine, with her heavily airbrushed self on the cover of every issue was just ludicrous to me. It boggles my mind that people gravitate to this crazy egomaniac! A scary thought to me is that she'll want to get into high political office. And that people are just foolish enough to elect a feel-good master manipulator who thinks she knows better about how I should live my life than I do. Ok. Well. Like we have now, lol. Only Biden's more a puppet of whoever is running that party. The same guy that went against the constituency at the party nominations and deep sixxed Bernie Sanders in favor of hated shrew, Hillary Clinton, because it was "her turn". Sorry to digress! I'm old & easily distracted. It's kind of what happens when you live a long time & see a lot of things. You carry them around in your head & relate them to other things. 🤓

+Thehoneyeffect: She does...such thick, beautiful black curls to go with those big brown eyes of hers.

Seriously? 🤨🤭

@@marcathens2951 Typical comment from your kind.

And a sell out

I agree. I remember she had some of the best advice from her book for starting tv reporters. It was really good! Loved her show!

Oprah is the worst example. Learn more about her. This is all for show. She doesn’t even want to be black.

but not reality

No. It’s what america SHOULD BE, but really isn’t. I’m sure they talked about her behind her back and in front her face. The laughing and fun on the outside is not reality. Sorry

​@@jimmcdonald9490 Yeah. That's why Oprah is a big nobody now. Systemic racism kept her down! The poor, deprived, powerless minority population of black Americans is what skyrocketed her to fame and made her billions of dollars!

Harold Edwards was it a wig

nickelwindow53 No, that’s what hair styles people had in the 70’s

@@nickelwindow53 No wig that was her hair.She always had a lot of hair

I remember watching her on the local news in Baltimore as a child in the 1980s,those were much better times in Maryland.

When black women were proud of their natural hair 😢

Barbara Walters only Barbra I am aware of is Barbra Streisand.

Nice and neat looking not wild😊

His is wrong color makes him look older.

Love it!

Yes!!! Love the fros!!

I love Mr. Noel Pointer Jazz Music🎻

Thank you for sharing, vidform.

Thank you, I never knew this. I only remembered Stevie Wonder singing this, I think. It’s really a beautiful piece of music.

The original artist is Stevie Wonder, who wrote this song in 1973 and put it on his "Innervisions" album. Noel Pointer's version is an instrumental remake from 1977.

She surely did. She always pretends like it just happened or it was luck, but she always put herself in the right places and was very determined to rise to the top. It makes people root for you more when you pretend it was just luck.

I was also in a Foster Home in 1978. I was a 10 Years of aged little girl during 1978. Staring at my Parent's Television 📺 Set. Of all of those lifeless Bodies laying there on the grounds of Guyana.🤦🏾‍♀️

D GRIFF She kind of does..never thought about it.m

EXACTLY!!!!!!! HAHAHAHABH IKR!!!!! I thought it from the very beginning!! :D XD

@@arushilovesmusic The first time I saw Oprah, my child’s eyes fooled me into thinking she was Evelyn Champagne King.

@@Msboochie2 Hahah, Same here... They both look soo similar!!

She looks just like

Why would you find it hard to believe, if you can make it in Baltimore you can make it anywhere

😂Right

No she doesn't

Always had a thick head of hair.

She does not stfu she look way older cuz she is idiot

Before she sold out and said she didn’t want to be black. Then she started exploiting her own kind and killing kids in other countries. Almost makes you wonder if this is the same lady! The same lady who judged rappers for using the b word and then she kissing all up on Harvey Weinstein.

Also this is before WLS-TV Chicago got her initially for their newscasts and AM Chicago. It's crazy how Oprah started out.

I thought they just demoted her because they said she wasn’t very good.

@@willedpower3291 From what I understand, this was the demotion. She was the anchor.

@@TheSuperk25 the demotion was the talk show. She loved it show much that she went on to find opportunities in Chicago for her own talk show.

Yes, it was a demotion, but the realization came because of that. It was an unintentional realization.

Wow. Who knew? It pays to be kind to Ppl, co-workers included.

I WASN'T ALIVE LMAO UNTIL 89

2dasimmons I wish that all black people would be proud of their natural hair

Yes. That day is coming but white supremacy aka racism/colonialism will have to be eliminated 1st. THAT will take DIVINE INTERVENTION. HALLELUYAH!

The Afro for her is played out she fine the way she is but the youngstas are bringing it back!

@@wanderer34 💯

She looks great with her most recent wild wave style although yes, the Afro was cute on her...Oprah's cute, period.

Before, she went all Hollywood!

TIC TOC

How so?

Spell?😭😭

+@Cynthia Dickerson: Yes, thank you, *Cynthia!* Oprah has worked hard for her huge success.

+@@0BRAINS0: You can admire somebody without being "star-struck." Big Brown Eyes Oprah has *earned* worldwide admiration, not only for her huge success, but for her kind, huge heart and never letting her earned wealth spoil her.

@@Coryraisa yeah, I met her when I was a kid. She was racist then towards anyone other than African Americans and I bet nothing has changed. But you know so much more than me so by all means, fill us all in with the juicy details about your personal friendship with the woman.....

+@@0BRAINS0: Yes...she's truly lovely and *unprejudiced,* especially today, *UniteAllTribes.* 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁

I was thinking the same thing!!

totally recall when Rox said that singer Leela James looks like Lady O. We thought LJ looks more like Ms. Hill. The tri-connection.

EXACTLY

Oprah actually went Chicago, not Hollywood. And Oprah has become *more* real over the years as her confidence has grown. She's stopped allowing herself to be fat-shamed and stopped feeling so "ugly."

@@Coryraisa Shes full of shit

@@Coryraisa hah. Your concept of real is extremely misguided and confused.

@@cpilfold420: Maybe some, but Oprah Brown Eyes is Chicago all the way.

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Exactly

MANE WHAT!

Not many people are wearing Afros, these days, are they? Plus she’s worn dreadlocks, etc so...

Lucindia Galloway skin bleaching

Oh ignorant one, lighting was different back then.

Porka Pigfeet ain't bleaching she's done what Jamaican foolish females call *_"Toning"._* No disrespect to *_"THE REAL JAMAICAN WOMEN"_* who love themselves. Lighting has not changed much since then (1980s), the same type of light-boxes are used and LED lights of today are calibrated to match fluorescent light in light-boxes for videography. Okra Pigmeat has had the lightened look for a while now. Not saying she's a beige bitch. But she had said in an interview she wanted to be a Cave Bitch (white) when she was younger. So she assimilated & toned her black ass to the Cave Beast Vampires.

Y’all truly don’t know what skin bleaching looks like.

There are much better cameras today, than there was 30 years ago. Cameras historically, going back hundreds of years ago, before color, were made by white people, to accurately capture white people. Cameras historically have never been flattering to black people. Always making them appear much darker than they really are. This is because cameras were made by white people, and were made to be flattering to Caucasians. They only tested the cameras on white people, before they made them commercially available. They never tested them with black people until recently. And they still aren't perfect at capturing darker skin tones.

Exactly

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I didn't. Came to the comments to find THIS comment. Thanks

😂😂Yo he looks like he is trying to stop her like look were still live stop it🙅‍♀️🤦‍♀️😂😂😭😭😭

He's still around. Still doing his square off show.

@@brickfacem109r9 oh that's a surprise. My guess was he had died decades ago. I wonder if he's bitter of Oprah's success.

He was serving as a volunteer once per week in the Maryland shock trauma unit in downtown Baltimore.

That fro looks great, not one hair out of place

@@marvinhagler4721 That is impressive, just some of those shapes!

Oprah isn’t from BMore, she’s from Mississippi. She worked at WJZ before moving on to Chicago... I still remember her and Richard Sher on people are talking.

Oprah is DEFINITELY from Mississippi.

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Does Baltimore city have speech class to ?

L tilli That woman looks the same...Eye lashes and make up is better today than in 1978..especially for people of color

@@loveyu2778 true, I doubt she had plastic surgery. It's just crazy how different she looks now. But it was a long time ago and you're right, make-up and editing make things look so different nowadays ...

No plastic surgery. She was just younger back then...eyes often become droopier with age. She had fewer wrinkles then...she aged gracefully. I love how her thick brows grew more mobile. Cute how when her thick brows went up she had three little short pleats in her forehead back then in her twenties. Today in her sixties, she now has seven deeper pleats lined across her forehead when her brows rise...it's cute.

Makeup contouring that makes it look like her nose has a bridge--as many people of African descent have a flat nose. This makes her eyes look closer together. This is done by a makeup artist.

+@@RS-dm4yo: How true! And with today's technology, many pictures can be photoshopped. Wrinkles are often photoshopped away also.

Alpha Omega News Director Dennis Swanson at WLS picked that up. When Oprah said she wanted to go solo, he said okay.

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Yuck, become like that bitter, nasty, cold, jealous Mo 'Nique??? I don't think so! Oprah's way too sensitive for that and on top of it, Oprah's unique, not a rip-off of anyone else.

You do know that she actually had a part on the soap opera and she was rehearsing her lines right?