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CBS’ Black Soap Opera ‘Beyond the Gates’ Reminds Us That the Present Is the Past
CBS' new soap opera 'Beyond the Gates' is the first-Black led soap in three decades and centers on the affluent Dupree family.
Set in the fictional Maryland suburb of Fairmount Crest, the Duprees, a wealthy Black American family whose roots go back to the actual founding of the community, loom large. The Fairmount Crest Country Club was established in 1951, just 86 years after the end of the Civil War, showcasing the rise of Black wealth and community-building despite Jim Crow laws and perpetual anti-Blackness. Series like “The Jeffersons,” “A Different World,” “The Fresh Prince-of-Bel Air,” and even more recently, “Insecure” depict Black Americans who, like other folks of color in America, have long-established lineages, lives and legacies despite horrendous circumstances.
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