Stars come out for Oprah's school opening

Oprah Winfrey headed a celebrity line-up that included Tina Turner and Spike Lee at today’s opening of the talk-show queen’s new school for poor South African girls.

Stars come out for Oprah's school opening

Oprah Winfrey headed a celebrity line-up that included Tina Turner and Spike Lee at today’s opening of the talk-show queen’s new school for poor South African girls.

The true stars, though, were Sade and Megan, whose father killed their mother and then himself; Zodwa, whose mother died of Aids, and some 150 other girls who Winfrey says had a “light so bright” that it shone through their deprivation and helped their dreams come true.

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