Renauld White, who helped forge greater diversity on designer runways and later spent two years on soap opera The Guiding Light, died June 26 at age 80.

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 ...

CBS’ Black Soap Opera ‘Beyond the Gates’ Reminds Us That the Present Is the Past Production: CBS Studios/NAACP Venture, led by Sheila Ducksworth, in partnership with P&G Studios, a division ...

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.

“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 soap is also produced by Procter & Gamble, the consumer goods company that helped invent (and name) the soap opera. Our critic raves: CBS' 'Beyond the Gates' is juicy soap-opera gold: Review ...