On April 30th, 2019, Oprah Winfrey accepted the Hollywood Reporter?s Empowerment in Entertainment Award. After Alicia Keys handed her the award, Winfrey spoke about her experience as a business woman. According to Extra, in her acceptance speech she told a story about being denied equal pay. When she was working in the news in Baltimore she asked to be paid the same as he co-anchor. Yet was told no because she was a single woman without kids she wasn?t ?entitled? to earn the same amount.