The network Monday introduces viewers to the Black soap opera "Beyond the Gates," which follows the powerful Dupree family in ...

"Beyond the Gates" is the first daytime soap with a majority-Black cast and the first new Big Three network soap since 1999. This Hollywood story has a plot twist worthy of a soap opera. An Augusta ...

Michele Val Jean, a South Side native and soap writer veteran, is behind “Beyond the Gates,” which features a wealthy Black family. People have been declaring soaps are dead for decades ...