Tamara Tunie and Daphnee Dufai on the gow. "Beyond the Gates" is making history

A new CBS daytime drama is making history as the first soap opera in decades to feature a Black family at its center. “Beyond the Gates” follows the powerful Dupree family in an affluent Maryland suburb. The daytime drama will focus on the Duprees as they navigate their lives. The series is also the first … Read more

Cast of "Beyond the Gates" on making history as first Black daytime soap in 35 years

Cast of “Beyond the Gates” on making history as first Black daytime soap in 35 years – CBS News Watch CBS News CBS’s new drama “Beyond the Gates” is the first daytime soap opera greenlit in 25 years—and the first Black-led soap in over three decades. The series follows the powerful Dupree family navigating life … Read more

The Bangles’ memoir retraces the band’s steps of walking like Egyptians, meeting Prince and making history

On the Shelf Eternal Flame DA CAPO, 416 pages, $ 27.90If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.orgwhose fees support independent bookstores. Long before their chart domination, global popularity and, ultimately, their implosion, the Bangles began with an ad on a big board in the Sunset Boulevard … Read more

Rwanda-backed rebels take second major city in Congo, making unprecedented gains

Rwanda-backed rebels reached the center of east Congo’s second largest city, Bukavu, on Sunday morning and took control of the South Kivu province administrative office after little resistance from government forces, many of whom fled the rebels’ advance. Associated Press journalists witnessed scores of residents cheering on the M23 rebels in central Bukavu on Sunday morning … Read more

Fernanda Torres is making the Oscar run of her life. For Brazilians, she’s already won something larger

Speaking to The Times in 2019, Brazilian acting legend Fernanda Montenegro described receiving an Academy Award nomination 20 years earlier for her role in Walter Salles’ “Central Station” — and her extensive campaigning for it — as “a trip to Jupiter.” Montenegro’s stateside recognition was unprecedented: the first time a Brazilian actor competed at the … Read more