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The Woman Who Brought the Black Soap Opera Back — Beyond the Gates EP Sheila Ducksworth
For over 25 years, there was no Black daytime soap opera on television. Sheila Ducksworth decided that was going to change.
In this episode of NAACP+ Inside the Industry, host Ariana Drummond sits down with Sheila Ducksworth — president of the CBS Studios NAACP venture, executive producer of Beyond the Gates, and influential architect in Black television — for a conversation about what it actually took to bring the first Black-led daytime soap opera in over 25 years from a childhood dream to network television. Sheila gets into:
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