Singer/Actress LeToya Luckett will co-star with Yaya DaCosta and Morris Chestnut in TV adaptation of "Our Kind of People." The Fox dramatic series will be written by Karin Gist. Karin Gist, Lee Daniels, Claire Brown, Marc Velez, Pam Williams, Ben Silverman, Howard T. Owens, Rodney Ferrel, and Montrel McKay will all serve as executive producer.
LeToya Luckett will play a strong, elegant businesswoman named Leah Frankilin-Dupont. Morris Chestnut will play her husband Raymond. Yaya DaCosta plays a character named Angela Vaughn, the person that will shake things up between Leah and Raymond.
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Here is the goodreads synopsis of Our Kind of People:
"Fascinating. . . . [Graham] has made a major contribution both to African-American studies and the larger American picture." --New York Times
Debutante cotillions. Million-dollar homes. Summers in Martha's Vineyard. Membership in the Links, Jack & Jill, Deltas, Boule, and AKAs. An obsession with the right schools, families, social clubs, and skin complexion. This is the world of the black upper class and the focus of the first book written about the black elite by a member of this hard-to-penetrate group.
Author and TV commentator Lawrence Otis Graham, one of the nation's most prominent spokesmen on race and class, spent six years interviewing the wealthiest black families in America. He includes historical photos of a people that made their first millions in the 1870s. Graham tells who's in and who's not in the group today with separate chapters on the elite in New York, Los Angeles, Washington, Chicago, Detroit, Memphis, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Nashville, and New Orleans. A new Introduction explains the controversy that the book elicited from both the black and white communities.
Source material: Deadline.com