Is Oprah too big for the big screen?

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By Talia Whyte
theGrio

Oprah Winfrey is all over the news these days.

The television icon began the week receiving the 2010 Kennedy Center Honors for her contributions to the entertainment world. Then on Tuesday she headed off on a week-long trip to Australia with 300 members of her studio audience. And today she will appear in an interview with Barbara Walters, yet again defending herself against the ever-present rumor that she is involved in a lesbian relationship with her BFF Gayle King.

However, most people are interested in what Winfrey will do with her time when she ends her 25-year-old talk show next summer.

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A Decade of Daring: Access Strategies Fund Celebrates 10 Years

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By Talia Whyte
The Access Strategies Fund celebrated its tenth anniversary Nov. 10 with a gala at the Villa Victoria Center for the Arts. The organization’s mandate is to “provide non-partisan funding and technical assistance to 501 (c)(3) organizations to build the civic participation and power of people of color, diverse women, low-income people, immigrant communities, and other groups that have been denied power in Massachusetts communities.”

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Books Behind Bars: Literacy and Incarceration in Massachusetts

By Talia Whyte

Literacy advocates gathered at the Nonprofit Center in Chinatown Nov. 6 to collect donated books, which will be redistributed to prisons around the country. The issue of literacy is a concern to communities of color because the vast majority of U.S. prisoners are black or Latino, and most statistics show that 40 percent of prisoners are functionally illiterate.

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Black Women Working Out: Being Fit and Fabulous

By Talia Whyte

I have been a fitness fanatic for as long as I can remember. Early every morning I get up to run for about an hour either outdoors or at my gym. Some days of the week I will also do weight training with a sprinkling of yoga practices thrown in. So, I was shocked and saddened to read in Essence magazine recently that one third of black women either don’t exercise enough or don’t exercise at all because they don’t want to mess up their hairstyles. Considering that 77 percent of black women are either obese or overweight, the hair excuse is very disturbing.

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