She then moved to Baltimore where she worked at the city’s WJZ station as a production assistant.

“I’d never met anybody like that.

Certainly not another Black girl.”

Gayle King smiling

She continued, “They just thought I lived off of Oprah!

I’ll be in the airport and people will say, ‘What are you doing here?

You don’t have a plane?’

Gayle King and Oprah Winfrey

And I’m like, yeah I do: It’s called American Airlines!”