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10 Thoughts About Queen Sugar and Last Night’s Season Finale
Warning: There will be spoilers. You have been warned. If you haven’t seen it yet, get your life. 1. It was fun watching the postshow special and trying to see myself in the crowd (I didn’t, but I also didn’t watch the whole thing—had to get the babies to sleep and whatnot). The experience of…
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Hey, Y’all, I Met Oprah. Here’s What Happened
A little backstory on how we got to the point where this is even a thing: On Nov. 17, 2016, I wrote a piece called “Queen Sugar Hits This Dad Right in the Feels.” By the end of that day, life was different; anything was possible. The piece published first thing in the morning that…
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OWN Orders Drama Series Inspired by Moonlight Co-Writer’s Life, Executive-Produced by Michael B. Jordan
Tarell Alvin McCraney, executive producer and co-writer of Moonlight, is teaming up with Michael B. Jordan for a new drama series based on McCraney’s life, to debut on Oprah Winfrey’s OWN. The drama follows a 14-year-old prodigy from South Florida who must choose between the streets and higher education at the end of the Obama…
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OWN’s New Docuseries Released Shares the Stories of Formerly Incarcerated Men and Women Re-Entering Society
The first 90 days after being released from incarceration are said to be the hardest. And a new documentary on Oprah Winfrey’s OWN will take a look at the lives of several men and women re-entering the world after being in prison. Released will present autobiographical portraits of formerly incarcerated individuals as they walk out…
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Watch: OWN’s Black Love Digs Into the Best Hollywood Couples’ Love Lives for Honest and Raw Advice
Black love is about to get more than hashtaggable attention. Oprah Winfrey’s OWN has decided to make black love into a docuseries of the same name. Winfrey tapped filmmakers Codie Elaine Oliver and Tommy Oliver (The Perfect Guy) and Confluential Films for the new show Black Love. OK, so what is it? Black Love highlights…
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#GimmeSugar: OWN Renews Queen Sugar for Season 3
Last month, Oprah Winfrey told a small group of women attending a Queen Sugar event in Los Angeles that the show isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. And of course, Winfrey kept her word: OWN has renewed the spectacular series for a third season. Queen Sugar, the series executive-produced by Ava DuVernay and based on the…
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Oprah Winfrey Can’t Save Underground Because It’s Too Expensive
When news came that WGN was canceling Underground, fans of the show were in shock, but as the shock wore off, fans and its creator, John Legend, called out to one person to help save the show: Oprah Winfrey. But unfortunately, Winfrey says she can’t bring Underground to OWN. During a roundtable discussion in Los…
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Watch: Queen Sugar’s 2nd-Season Trailer
It looks as though the three Bordelon children in OWN’s Queen Sugar have some major drama brewing in season 2. In the new trailer that dropped this week, siblings Nova (Rutina Wesley), Charley (Dawn-Lyen Gardner) and Ralph Angel (Kofi Siriboe) aren’t on the same page when it comes to cultivating the sugarcane farm, from a…
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Do You Watch Greenleaf? You Might Should Watch Greenleaf.
I came to actively watch the show Greenleaf on accident. I was tip-toeing in my Jordan’s (more like Chuck’s but whatevs) through Netflix and saw that the first season was available. I knew it was an OWN show but I kind of thought it was a reality show about a family in a megachurch. I…