making her the first Black actress to win an Emmy in the lead acting category. Morgan, who portrays Amanda Sinclair and previously played Hilary Curtis on the long-running CBS soap opera ...

Every soap opera trope ... who is regarded as the first Black filmmaker, wrote, produced and distributed, "Within Our Gates." ...

She says she wanted a soap opera focused on a Black family that avoided the usual stereotypes. “We wanted to have a show on the air that spoke to a different side of the Black experience,” Val ...

The setting has also inspired a ground-breaking new soap opera called Beyond the Gates ... making her the youngest black woman at the time to own one. It's success stories like these and people ...

“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 ...

Hollywood's highest honor stands Halle Berry, who in 2002 became the first and only Black woman to win the Academy Award.