Angelique Jackson Taraji P. Henson’s new overall deal at BET Studios is already paying dividends, with Henson in talks to produce and star in “Queenie,” a new series about Stephanie St.
Clair, otherwise known as the “Godmother of Harlem.”Adapted by Leigh Davenport, the series is based on the book “The World of Stephanie St.
Clair: An Entrepreneur, Race Woman and Outlaw in the Early Twentieth Century Harlem” by Shirley Stewart. It tells the true story of St.
Clair, who in the 1920s and ’30s was “the most profitable female ‘numbers banker’ in an illegal underworld run by the most vicious and notorious of men.”“To put it too simply, all she ever wanted was to run and mind her own business.
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