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By Jeffrey Quiggle In a virtual conversation with political leaders, the “Queen of all media” surprised some with an intriguing choice. Oprah Winfrey’s meteoric rise to fame and fortune is well documented and celebrated. She was born in Mississippi. She attended Tennessee State University, an HBCU in the heart of Nashville. At 19, Oprah became the youngest and first African-American anchor for the city’s WTVF-TV. After continuing her broadcast journalism career in Baltimore, she then hosted a morning show in Chicago. That production was named The Oprah Winfrey Show, was syndicated in 1986 and …