Whoopie goldberg articles

  • How Debbie Allen Recruited Whoopi Goldberg for A Different World

    [caption id="attachment_3580786" align="alignnone" width="900"] Debbie Allen and Whoopi Goldberg[/caption] When A Different World made the historic decision to address the AIDS epidemic head-on, Debbie Allen knew exactly who she had to call. “I remember the degree of difficulty of doing a show about AIDS,” Allen, 74, recalled during a cast reunion of the iconic sitcom on The View Wednesday, April 17. “Whoopi Goldberg was our secret weapon.” In a season 4 episode of A Different World...
  • Whoopi Goldberg: Republicans Want to 'Bring Slavery Back'

    Whoopi Goldberg told her co-hosts Wednesday on ABC's "The View" that some Republicans would like to "bring slavery back" during the panel discussion of the Arizona Supreme Court’s ruling reinstating an 1864 abortion ban. | Clips
  • Whoopi Goldberg Has a Poignant Message for Eclipse Conspiracy Theorists

    Whoopi Goldberg dismissed conspiracy theories linking recent natural phenomena to apocalyptic predictions on the April 8 episode of The View, in a discussion sparked by co-host Sunny Hostin.Hostin had raised concerns, fueled by her makeup artist's reaction to the rare New York City earthquake on April 5 and the day's solar eclipse, that such events could be divine omens."Our wonderful makeup artist, when the earthquake was happening, she put her coat on and she was like, 'Jesus is coming. I'm...