The show, created by Black soap opera veteran Michele Val Jean ... friends and family reunion in the show's makeup, wardrobe and hair departments as well as Black composer Kurt Farquhar ...

After a 25-year hiatus in new soap launches, the showrunners of "Beyond The Gates" are promising rich storytelling with ...

He joined a host of Black stars who left their mark on the soap industry ... how to light you and they understand how to do your hair and you don’t have to explain anything,” Duplaix says.

(The last daytime soap focusing on a Black family was NBC's half-hour show ... tell horror stories about working on projects where the hair and makeup staff don't know how to style Black people.

“Beyond the Gates” marks the first-ever one-hour Black daytime soap in television history. It’a also the first new daytime drama to premiere since “Passions” in 1999. The series began ...

Come 'Beyond the Gates' for the First Black-Led Soap Opera — the First New Network Soap in Decades NEW YORK (AP) — The first thing viewers of “Beyond the Gates” see is a black Mercedes ...