Oh Oxygen. We need it to breathe, we need it to live and the executives over at the television network it's named after are always trying to convince us that we need to watch it.

Here's Oprah in 1983, at the age of 29, introducing herself as part of her taped audition for a new morning show in Chicago.

Following reports that Donald Sterling will be forced sell his team, Oprah Winfrey, David Geffen and Larry Ellison are considering banding together to buy the Los Angeles Clippers.

In the second part of a Daily Mail interview with Oprah Winfrey's ex-stepmother Barbara Winfrey, Barbara alleges that Oprah has had her partner Stedman followed, that Gayle is more important to Oprah than Stedman and that Oprah is obsessed with the color of her skin.

Sometimes shows should be cancelled because they’re bad and VH1’s previously-defunct Single Ladies is just that. Unfortunately, when crappy shows have a built-in audience of more than 2.6 million viewers, some lazy network will dredge them up if only to sell more suspect Dove products against LisaRaye’s attempts at…

Is the Queen of Talk poised to become the next Queen of Broadway? According to the latest Broadway buzz (that is a fun term), Oprah is in discussions to make her debut in a Pulitzer Prize-winning play.

Guys, I'm tired of writing this story, but here we go ... 2013 was a great year for black actors but shitty for black actresses. Womp, but at least it was good for one part of at least one minority group, right? Right?

It was arguably a banner year for black films, with major films like 12 Years a Slave, The Butler, Best Man Holiday, Black Nativity and Kevin Hart's Let Me Explain successfully gracing the box office. But there was something missing from this acclaimed mix — black women.

The trial of Nigella Lawson and Charles Saatchi versus their assistants is the stuff that people who love watching Court TV live for, which is why the Daily Mirror's live updates on the court case are so enrapturing. The latest update asserts old rumors that Lawson will be rehabbing her image by sitting in a beige…

[Women's rights activist Gloria Steinem, left, gestures toward Oprah Winfrey, as Oprah gives a "thumbs up" after Steinem during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2013, where President Barack Obama awarded Presidential Medals of Freedom. At center is fellow recipient…

At an event promoting his new movie Lone Survivor, in which he plays a Navy SEAL stranded in Afghanistan, Mark Wahlberg went off on frou-frou movie stars who compare their cushy jobs to military tours of duty.

Patti LaBelle was the guest on last night's episode of Oprah's Next Chapter. She regularly furrowed her brow at Oprah's questions, often answering them with a side-eye and a "What!" It was, in short, everything you'd want it to be. Moreover, it was everything, period.

Stealing liberally from TLC, Oprah Winfrey's OWN network has ordered a full series of Crazy.Sexy.Life, a reality television show about four black women living in Harlem.

In today's Tweet Beat, Oprah says she's glad that racist store clerk didn't sell her that bag, Gene Simmons shares a scenic view of a tarmac and Jenny McCarthy's problems put your whole life in perspective.

Last night was the New York premiere of The Butler, the Lee Daniels film about a long-term African-American employee at the White House. Fun fact: The script was written by Danny Strong, aka Jonathan on Buffy and Doyle on Gilmore Girls. But this is a red carpet fashion post and we're here for the clothes, so let's…

This is not good. Sam Lufti, best known as the bizarre and controlling former manager of 2007 brokedown-palace edition Britney Spears, has got his claws into Amanda Bynes. Apparently he bought her the plane ticket back to L.A. after the bong-throwing incident and she's spoken to him on the phone since she was placed…

The time has come, the walrus said, for Rihanna to put some grey streaks in her hair and call it #brrr. So she did. It looks cute, I think! Then she riffed on #brr for awhile:

The inside of Lindsay Lohan's brain is composed of vodka, PediaLite and one failed Tyra Banks music video, but this hasn't deterred Team Oprah from offering her $2 million actual American dollars to feature an 8-part docuseries on OWN about LiLo's life and struggles. (For context, she got $1 million from her Playboy …