Inner City Beauty & Blues: Lena Waithe hits home with daily struggles, complex stories in new Sh
By: Erica M. Ponder Award-winning producer and screenwriter Lena Waithe does her hometown of Chicago justice as she embodies innocent humanity and everyday struggles of the inner city in her new Showtime series The Chi. The new drama, which officially airs on Jan. 7, gives viewers a beautiful, yet raw peak into the world of young black boys and men from the city’s south side, as well as the women in their lives, as they battle their own personal conflicts while trying to hold