Time After Time/Soap World

In our final black history month piece we count down the top 5 African American male villains.  These are the bad brotha's that have come into the lives of our favorite soap characters and used their power of persuasion through black...

In daytime you cannot have any issues without someone causing the problems most of the time.  Maybe you have something or someone they want. Maybe they lost something and they feel you are to blame. Maybe you have done something to them in the past either intentionally o...

In this classic Soap Opera Digest article they chronicle the best catfight in daytime history from the now defunct series Generations.  The fight was between Doreen (Jonelle Allen) and Maya (Vivica A. Fox).  Never before had a daytime catfight had such a fabulous lead up to it and such kickass brawl when it all went down. Check o...

Like with African American women, young African American male have actors also rarely been given the chance to grow their characters on a daytime serial where they have been cast. Historically speaking the majority of African American male actors in da...

In the history of daytime rarely were their younger African American female actors who were allowed a chance to grow with the show or to showcase the younger generation. Most African American female characters that were cast...

With a majority African American audience you would thinkthat all daytime drama's would move to fully integrate their cast. Yet, sadly that hasn't happened.  Days o...

In this discussion I grade each of the remaining soaps on the basis of what they have ...

As an off and on fan of As The World Turns off and on for over 2 decades that makes me 30 now. I had been swoon in by the short-lived soap o...

Nothing spells drama like the brooding men dazzling the women,with their money, charm, wit, and power. In some cases it's the "down to earth" man from the wrong side of the tracks that gets the good girl from the "well to do" family.  It's all in a soap day's work.   And that is what consists of the Brotha's aka African American men that ma...

When it comes to African American actresses in daytime you often hear me talk about the greats and compare them to the new school.  Christel Kahlil , Carla Mosley, Chaunteé Schuler, Tika Sumpter, Daphnee Duplaix Samuel, and Denise Vasi represent the new generation of actresses currently working. 

Christel Kahlil, Carla Mosley,...

The light is fading on Guiding Light in September, and when I heard of this I was sad, and then I began to think of where will the actors on the show end up. I placed Kim Zimmer on GH to reunite with Laura Wright (I love them together), I place Robert Newman on As The World Turns as a love interest for Barbara and Lucinda, and I made up other scenarios, but then I got ...