Oprah Was Fired and Told She Was "Unfit for TV" at 22 What SheDid Next Built a Billion Dollar Empire

In 1977, a 22-year-old reporter at a Baltimore news station was pulled off air and reassigned. Her boss told her she was 'unfit for television.' Her name was Oprah Winfrey. But the story of how Oprah became the most powerful woman in entertainment doesn't start in a TV studio — it starts in rural Mississippi, in poverty so severe she wore potato sacks to school, with a grandmother who taught her to read before she was three years old. This is the origin story the highlight reels skip. The part that made everything else possible. #Oprah #OprahWinfrey #BlackHistory #LegendsStartHere #OriginStory #BiographyHistory #WomenInMedia #InspiringWomen #SelfMadeBillionaire #HistoryFacts