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Come ‘Beyond the Gates’ for the first Black-led soap opera — the first new network soap in decades
The first thing viewers of “Beyond the Gates” see is a black Mercedes gliding past manicured lawns and stately estates. The sedan pulls up at an elegant country club and the valets come out.
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CBS’ Black Soap Opera ‘Beyond the Gates’ Reminds Us That the Present Is the Past
Every soap opera trope, including the over-the-top dialogue ... in response to D.W. Griffith’s appalling Blackface Ku Klux Klan propaganda film “The Birth of a Nation,” which was lauded ...
How 'Beyond the Gates,' network TV's first largely Black soap, is 'rooted in reality'
Generations after "Generations," CBS launches the first-ever predominantly Black soap as America grapples with race.
Come ‘Beyond the Gates’ for the first Black-led soap opera — the first new network soap in decades
The first thing viewers of “Beyond the Gates” see is a black Mercedes gliding past manicured lawns and stately estates.