Were you an Empire fan? Were you one of the many who missed one episode and never looked back? Empire’s co-creator, Lee Daniels, is an executive producer of FOX’s newest show, Our Kind of People.

Our Kind of People, based on the 1999 book by Lawerence Otis Graham, offers a controversial take on topics in upper-class Black America and organizations such as the AKAs and Jack and Jill of America. In this show, we see those same issues from the book come alive on the TV screen.

Angela, played by YaYa DaCosta, is a single mother who left her home in Martha’s Vineyard, MA after the recent death of her mother. Angela moved into this home with her Aunt Piggy and teenage daughter in hopes of building her natural hair care business in a new upper echelon Black community. Angela goes through twists and turns that no one can predict due to a lot of unfinished business her mother left behind. Any drama and soap-opera lover would indulge in the unpredictability of Our Kind of People.

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