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Article: Alex Haley's epic drama 'Queen' stars Halle Berry as mulatto struggling with her identity in six-hour mini-series. (Cover Story)
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- Jet
- Article date:
- February 15, 1993
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Halle Berry leads an all-star cast in Queen, a six-hour mini-series that explores the life of Alex Haley's paternal grandmother, a mulatto who overcame staggering odds to develop her own identity.
The CBS mini-series chronicles the life of Queen Haley, paternal grandmother of Pulitzer Prize-winner Alex Haley, author of the best-selling book, Roots. In the series that runs for three pights, Ms. Berry brings to life the desperate struggle of Queen, born on a Southern plantation to a slave mother (Jasmine Guy) and the son of the master (Tim Daly).
Queen was ridiculed by the Black slaves as a child (Raven Symone) and hated by most of the Whites, especially ...