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UPDATED: (Video) Child protection advocate, and "arguably the world's most powerful woman" according to CNN and Time.com, Oprah Winfrey says she will end her history-making television show on September 9, 2011.
She says that she will be focusing on new projects and the cable-television channel she plans to launch with Discovery Communications Inc.
A victim of childhood molestation herself, Oprah has worked tirelessly on the behalf of children everywhere. She has tackled everything from incest, child abuse, child predators and online safety, and worked closely with John Walsh on the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act.
According to the Academy of Achievement:
[In] 1991, motivated in part by her own memories of childhood abuse, she initiated a campaign to establish a national database of convicted child abusers, and testified before a U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on behalf of a National Child Protection Act. President Clinton signed the "Oprah Bill" into law in 1993, establishing the national database she had sought, which is now available to law enforcement agencies and concerned parties across the country.
Oprah's Angel Network "works around the globe to give people the chance to live their best lives."
The world is anxiously awaiting Oprah's official announcement, which she will make this morning on her talk show, according to a spokeswoman for Ms. Winfrey's Harpo Inc., in Chicago.
It doesn't matter who you are, where you come from.The ability to triumph begins with you. Always. - Oprah Winfrey
For more info: National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.
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