Tag: Oprah Winfrey

  • Nation & World

    Oprah and Arthur ask: Want to get happier? 

    “Build the Life You Want” co-authors drew on research and experience in a conversation that cautioned against conventional wisdom.

    3 minutes
    Jeffrey Goldberg, Arthur Brooks, and Oprah Winfrey.
  • Nation & World

    Powerful voices

    The W.E.B. Du Bois Medal was awarded to seven recipients, who were recognized for their outstanding contributions to African-American culture. The special ceremony concluded with a ribbon-cutting for the Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African and African American Art at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Winfrey’s Commencement address

    Oprah Winfrey, the Afternoon Program’s principal speaker at Harvard’s 362nd Commencement, addressed the Class of 2013. This is the text of her speech as delivered on May 30.

    20 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Winfrey: Failure is just movement

    Harvard Commencement speaker Oprah Winfrey addressed the Class of 2013 under sunny skies and called for them to accept failure, and then triumph over it. During the Afternoon Program, Harvard President Drew Faust recapped the year and called for increased federal funding for research universities.

    8 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Harvard awards 9 honorary degrees

    Media icon Oprah Winfrey, who will serve as the principal speaker for the Afternoon Exercises, joins eight other leaders in their fields — from medicine to politics to public service — in receiving an honorary degree at Harvard’s 362nd Commencement.

    14 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Schoolyard scourge

    Scholars convened at the Harvard Graduate School of Education to explore the topic of bullying and potential ways forward.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    The sacred Toni Morrison

    The Harvard Divinity School has organized a series of working groups to explore the religious dimensions of the work of author Toni Morrison in the lead-up to her Ingersoll Lecture on Immortality.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Lady Gaga, Winfrey target bullying

    Lady Gaga and her mother Cynthia Germanotta launched the Born This Way Foundation, a youth empowerment initiative, at Harvard’s Sanders Theatre on Feb. 29.

    5 minutes