Oprah Tells Graduating Class That It Took Her 10 Years To Get Her College Degree

Essence Magazine:

By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated May 9, 2023

Oprah Winfrey delivered the commencement speech to the 2023 class at her alma mater, Tennessee State University, and revealed that it took her nearly a decade to graduate.

During her remarks, the media mogul explained how she was just “one credit shy of qualifying for her diploma when her career in broadcast journalism took off.”

“I was majoring in speech communication and

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