Oprah Winfrey

For over 30 years, Oprah Winfrey, “the queen of all media,” set the tone for cultural conversations in America, and Winfrey’s acceptance speech for her Cecil B. deMille Award in 2018 was no exception.

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Beginning in 1952 when the Cecil B.  deMille Award was presented to its namesake visionary director, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association has awarded its most prestigious prize 69 times.

Oprah Winfrey's acceptance speech at the 75th Golden Globe Awards gala was one for the ages. Recipient of the Cecil B.

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Cecil B. deMille Award laureate Morgan Freeman has some words of congratulations – and advice – for our current recipient, Oprah Winfrey.

Oprah Winfrey is the recipient of the Cecil B. deMille Award of the 75th Golden Globes.

We celebrate Oprah Winfrey not only for all she has accomplished, as a woman, an artist and a leader, but also for owning her style. She knows who she is and what works.

"I am the same person that I would have been if I was going to be the 4th-grade teacher that I was going to be. I would have been a dynamic 4th-grade teacher, I would have won the teacher of the year award for sure, (laughter) but I am the same person.

The case of Henrietta Lacks and the cancer cells harvested from her biopsy, which became the source of an “immortalized” cell line used by science research labs worldwide, sits squarely at the crossroads of science, ethics and racial identity in America. For all the scientific advances that came from using the cells unbeknownst to the patient or her family, the story, first told in depth by reporter Rebecca Skloot, is emblematic of the sometimes-equivocal ethics that bind scientific research.