“Beyond the Gates,” daytime’s first ever nearly all-Black soap opera in over 30 years has officially made it’s television debut and fans (including this author) can’t help but to rave ...

The first soap opera to premiere in more than 25 years will feature a primarily Black cast, a historic breakthrough for a genre that is a throwback to an earlier time.

The first daytime soap solely focused on a Black family premieres this week on CBS and comes as the daytime genre is disappearing. “Passions,” which debuted in 1999 and ended in 2008, was the ...