Michelle A. Banks

The lives of staff in the womens' health clinic of a fictitious hospital in Philadelphia.

A friend group of black women face life's tests and triumphs together. From dating to divorce, and friends to family to relationships, Joan, Maya, Lynn and Toni support each other despite their differing backgrounds.

Rico Amonte, a rookie deputy sheriff with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, fresh from the police academy is assigned to Senior Deputy John Barnes for his probationary period where he learns the ropes and puts his training into practice.

The life of a deaf African American woman in the early 1900s parallels with another living in the 1990s.